HSOR provides “the evidence behind your decisions”. Started in Sep 2005, our portfolio and scope of work have grown considerably since. Our work is translational in nature, at the intersection of research and policy; addressing how health care including how it is delivered, social factors, behaviours, and payment models, affect access, quality and cost of health care, and ultimately our health and well-being. Our multidisciplinary team consists of experts in various disciplines, including medicine, nursing, physio/occupational therapy, epidemiology and public health, qualitative research, biostatistics, data science, informatics, mathematics, operations research, industrial engineering, health economics, psychology and social science. Our department is inherently user-driven, focusing on the needs of health policy makers and clinical stakeholders, enabling them to make the most informed decisions possible. With input from our collaborator-stakeholders, our research is current, timely and with a direct practical application. Our broad functions are to support NHG in:

• developing, adopting and scaling of effective and cost-effective population health and clinical programmes
• deploying pragmatic and rigorous methods, bench-marked against international best practices to answer questions most useful to decision-makers
• providing analysis and insights to support optimal and equitable resource distribution; reduce burden and cost of disease; and increase productivity
• supporting clinicians on clinical disease modelling