The Economic Evaluation of Precision Medicine in Diabetes: Models and Approaches

Talitha Feenstra, PhD

Associate Professor of PharmacoEconomics
Groningen University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy

Talitha Feenstra is a health economist with a background in econometrics (CL). She works as Associate Professor of PharmacoEconomics at the University of Groningen and is affiliated to the Dutch National Institute for Public Health (RIVM). Her research focuses on economic evaluations in health care, specifically for supporting personalized care by precision medicine.
She investigates and develops the (patient level) simulation models that are used for these evaluations, with a special interest in model-validation, and studies how real world data can be applied within these evaluations.

She works in several areas of application, but mostly in Diabetes Mellitus and in mental health care. She has been an active member of the Mounthood Diabetes challenge network that performs cross model validations and is a member of the ISPOR Special Interest Group in open source modeling. She served in the committees for revisions of the Dutch Economic evaluation guidelines in 2016 and 2024. Furthermore, she cooperates local pharmacist associations, leading to applied work in the community pharmacy.