Montasir Ahmed, MSc, MPhil

Profile

Montasir Ahmed is a Health Economist at the Health Economics and Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Centre for Evaluation and Methods, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London. He also holds an honorary appointment as Honorary Health Economist in the Clinical Haematology and Specialist Medicine Department at Barts Health NHS Trust, where he provides health economics expertise for clinical research, NHS service evaluations, and implementation studies.

Since joining Queen Mary in July 2022, he has led and contributed to economic evaluations across NIHR-funded clinical trials, NHS service evaluations, and health technology assessment (HTA) projects. His research focuses on the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions, digital health technologies, patient safety, and NHS service innovation. He applies decision-analytic modelling, real-world evidence, causal inference, and econometric methods to inform healthcare policy and resource allocation.

He leads the health economic evaluation of the Bedside Electronic Transfusion Checks (BETC) programme across Barts Health NHS Trust and contributes to several major research programmes, including the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), the Co-SMART feasibility randomised controlled trial, and the PROPHESY-2 multicentre cardiac surgery trial. He collaborates with clinicians, researchers, and health economists across Barts Health NHS Trust, NHS Blood and Transplant, the University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Manchester, and Queen Mary University of London to generate evidence that informs clinical practice, implementation research, and NHS decision-making.

His expertise includes health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), economic evaluation, health technology assessment, decision-analytic modelling, cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis, real-world evidence, causal inference, econometrics, survival analysis, systematic reviews, and probabilistic sensitivity analysis. His work spans clinical trials, observational studies, implementation research, and digital health evaluation.

Before joining Queen Mary, he held research and analytical positions at the University of Oslo, Oslo Metropolitan University, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and NordicRWE. He holds an MPhil in Health Economics, Policy and Management (specialising in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare) and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oslo, together with MSc and BSc degrees in Economics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

His research has been published in journals including PLOS ONE, Transfusion Medicine, Vox Sanguinis, Transfusion Medicine Reviews, and the British Journal of Haematology. He serves as a reviewer for NIHR funding applications and journals including PLOS ONE, BMJ Open, and BMJ Global Health. He is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE (AFHEA) and a member of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA), European Health Economics Association (EuHEA), Health Economists' Study Group (HESG), British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS), and the British Society for Haematology (BSH). His research aims to generate rigorous, transparent, and policy-relevant evidence that improves healthcare decision-making, patient outcomes, and the value of health services.

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests include health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), economic evaluation, health technology assessment (HTA), decision-analytic modelling, and real-world evidence. I evaluate digital health technologies, patient safety interventions, and NHS service innovations using cost-effectiveness analysis, causal inference, and econometric methods.

Publications

Outstanding publications:

1. Ahmed M, Muhoozi GKM, Atukunda P, Westerberg AC, Iversen PO, Wangen KR. Cognitive development among children in a low-income setting: Cost-effectiveness analysis of a maternal nutrition education intervention in rural Uganda. PLOS ONE. PMID: 37594989 PMCID: PMC10437995 DOI: 1371/journal.pone.0290379
2. Ahmed M, Green L, Bhatti I, Booth C, Bowles L, Djurdjevic O, McAleese H, McCullagh J, Murphy MF, Oyekan F, Proudlove N, Tomini F, Feng Y. Implementing Bedside Electronic Transfusion Checks at Barts Health NHS Trust: A Study Protocol for Evaluating the Effectiveness and Value-for-Money. Transfusion Medicine. DOI: 1111/tme.70002
3. Oyekan F, Ahmed M^†, Booth C, Bowles L, Djurdjevic O, Feng Y, Hancock K, Makki S, McAleese H, McCullagh J, Mon K, Murphy MF, Stanworth SJ, Proudlove N, Green L. Staff satisfaction with the use of Bedside Electronic Transfusion Checks at three hospitals in London. Vox Sanguinis. PMID: 42091447. DOI: 1111/vox.70282 (^†joint first author)
4. Oyekan F, Ahmed M, Booth C, Bowles L, Djurdjevic O, Feng Y, Geraci C, Green L, Hancock K, Makki S, McAleese H, Murphy MF, Proudlove N, McCullagh J. Transforming transfusion safety: Insights from implementing bedside electronic checks at a large UK National Health Service trust. Vox Sanguinis. PMID: 41724497. PMCID: PMC12982001. DOI: 10.1111/vox.70189
5. Proudlove N, Oyekan F, Ahmed M, Bowles L, Feng Y, McAleese H, McCullagh J, Murphy MF, Stanworth SJ, Green L. Efficiency and safety gains from bedside electronic transfusion checks in four hospitals in England. British Journal of Haematology. DOI: 10.1111/bjh.70681
6. Oyekan F, McAleese H, Ahmed M, Booth C, Bowles L, Murphy MF, Tomini F, Green L, McCullagh J. Quantifying harms associated with red cell ABO incompatible blood transfusion: A systematic review of the UK SHOT literature. Transfusion Medicine Reviews. 2025;39(3):150906. PMID: 40628158. DOI: 1016/j.tmrv.2025.150906
7. Ahmed M. Nutrition-related education intervention to improve cognitive development among impoverished small children in rural Uganda: A cost-effectiveness analysis. MPhil thesis. University of Oslo; 2020. Available at: https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/80443

Supervision

MSc Dissertation Supervisor, MSc Psychological Therapies (QMUL), 2025–26:

• Ayce Kurban: The effectiveness of psychological interventions for preventing relapse or recurrence in adults with remitted major depressive disorder: a systematic review.
• Maitha Thabet: The Influence of Stigma and Religious Beliefs on Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviours Among Adults in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: A Systematic Review.