Tel +64 3 479 8547
Email paul.hansen@otago.ac.nz
Room 624, 6th Floor, Otago Business School
Paul works mainly in areas related to priority-setting and resource allocation, especially in the health sector.
The co-inventor of 1000minds software (see below), Paul is interested in working with other researchers and students to apply 1000minds to a wide variety of decision-making problems.
Paul also helped start GoSkills.com, a global online-learning platform.
Paul's teaching includes microeconomics and health economics.
Paul's CV
Paul Hansen's CV (PDF)
1000minds software
Paul and his colleagues at 1000minds believe that with better understanding and decision-making, the world will be a better place. That's why they help organisations, individuals and groups to discover what matters to people, and to make decisions consistently, fairly and transparently.
1000minds is a web application for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and discovering people's preferences via Conjoint Analysis (or Discrete Choice Experiments, DCEs).
As well as corporate and government clients, 1000minds is used for research and teaching at 400+ universities and other organisations worldwide. More than 1000 research projects, including 100s of peer-reviewed publications and post-graduate degrees, have been completed or are underway.
Visit the 1000minds website to learn more, including to create a trial account and for potential research projects and also teaching resources.
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Selected publications
Ten of Paul's Best (according to him :) )
“Rapid development of a tool for prioritizing Covid-19 patients for intensive care” (with M Roy, T Sullivan, F Ombler, M Kiore, A Carr, A Stapleton), Critical Care Explorations, 3, e0368 (2021).
“A new tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets, including valuing 'dead'” (with T Sullivan, F Ombler, S Derrett, N Devlin), Social Science & Medicine, 246, 112707 (2020).
“How significant are 'high' correlations between EQ-5D value sets?” (with F Ombler, M Albert), Medical Decision Making, 38, 635-45 (2018).
“Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis” (with E Tacconelli et al and the WHO Pathogens Priority List working group), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18, 318-27 (2018).
“Which health technologies should be funded? A prioritization framework based explicitly on value for money” (with O Golan), Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 1, 44 (2012).
“A new method for scoring multi-attribute value models using pairwise rankings of alternatives” (with F Ombler), Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 15, 87-107 (2008).
"Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations - a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs” (with N Devlin, P Kind, A Williams), Health Economics, 12, 529-44 (2003).
“Another graphical proof of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem”, Journal of Economic Education, 33, 217-35 (PDF) (2002).
“The determinants of health care expenditure: a cointegration approach” (with A King), Journal of Health Economics, 15, 127-37 (1996).
“Inference on productivity differentials in multi-sector models of economic growth” (with R Alexander, D Owen), Journal of Development Economics, 51, 315-25 (1996).
Teaching responsibilities
Paul's courses include: