Professor Nicholas Mays
Nick is a social scientist with 45 years’ experience in health and social care research, and policy analysis, with a particular focus on evaluation of innovative policies. He is Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy and was Director of PIRU from 2010 until the end of 2023. His main research interests are in organisational and funding innovations in health care systems, and in the politics of the health policy process.
He has worked in the NHS, in UK medical schools, for the King’s Fund and for the New Zealand Treasury where he was principal health policy advisor, 1998-2003. He was a trustee and board member of a What Works Centre – the Centre for Ageing Better, 2015-22. He is a Senior Associate at the Nuffield Trust, Member of The King’s Fund’s General Advisory Council and an Honorary Life Member of the Society for Social Medicine and Population Health.
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