Dr Sarah Norris is a co-director of Health Technology Analysts Pty Ltd (www.htanalysts.com) and a Director of the Health Services Assessment Collaboration (HSAC) healthsac.net. Dr Norris is a member of Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi), The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), the Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) and the Australian Association for Regulatory and Clinical Scientists (ARCS).
Dr Norris has previously served on the Health Economics Education Subcommittee of ARCS, and is currently Secretary of the Australian Chapter of ISPOR. Dr Norris has previously worked as an evaluator for the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC), Australia (http://www.msac.gov.au/). Dr Norris is currently an NHMRC consultant for the assessment of externally-developed Clinical Practice Guidelines. Dr Norris has been an invited speaker at the ARCS Annual Scientific Congress, and at the AusBiotech annual conference. Dr Norris has been a Director of Health Technology Analysts since 2002.
Prior to entering the field of health technology assessment in 1998, Dr Norris worked as a medical research scientist in physiology and neuropharmacology at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington NZ, the Parke-Davis Neuroscience Research Centre, Cambridge, England, the University of Leeds, England, and at UNSW, Australia. During that time Dr Norris presented her research at meetings of the British Pharmacological Society, the Physiological Society, and the American Society for Neurosciences.
Dr Norris‘s research interests include methods of critical appraisal and the overall assessment of bodies of evidence. Dr Norris is particularly interested in pragmatic trial design, the ways in which evidence-based medicine principles can be applied to non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Dr Norris is a tutor on the Pharmaceutical Medicine and Drug Development post-graduate course delivered by the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia (http://drugdev.med.unsw.edu.au), and is involved with the teaching of introductory statistics and critical appraisal.