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PREFER PhD project on rheumatoid arthritis

Karin Schölin Bywall, PhD Student, Uppsala University

In March this year, Karin Schölin Bywall started her PhD studies at Uppsala University. Her project is part of PREFER. It will look at how rheumatoid arthritis patient preferences can add value when regulators make decisions on drug development.

According to Karin Schölin Bywall, the PREFER project offers the chance to work with PhD students from other universities. PREFER also allows her to develop research questions with senior researchers from universities and the pharmaceutical industry. This collaboration also ensures stakeholder perspectives in her PhD project.

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Willingness, preferences and medical products

Jorien Veldwijk, Academic co-lead WP 3

What is it that makes patients decide to accept a treatment with serious side effects? And what would make them say no? Jorien Veldwijk explains how Discrete Choice Experiments can help find out what patients prefer.

Jorien Veldwijk is an expert in Discrete Choice Experiments, or ‘DCE’s” as they are often called. Her PhD thesis used DCE’s to look at preferences for and willingness to participate in different public health interventions. DCE’s are one of the methods that the PREFER project will look at. This method makes it possible to find out how people weigh benefits and risks against each other. She is public co-lead for PREFER’s clinical case studies, where the methods selected by the project will be tested in different patient groups.

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Last modified: 2022-04-13