Ruth  is a Project Coordinator at the University of York’s Centre for Health Economics, providing project support for the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI). Ruth also provides project support to the Global Health Team in York led by Professor Marc Suhrcke and is also the Project Coordinator on an HS&DR serious mental illness project. Ruth was previously worked on a consultation exercise led by Dr Richard Cookson at York about fairness in the NHS and prior to joining CHE, was a freelance Research Assistant on a project looking at services available to children with life-limiting illnesses.