David McDaid is Senior Research Fellow in Health Policy and Health Economics at LSE Health and Social Care, Personal Social Services Research Unit and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Co-ordinator of the Mental Health Economics European Network, he has published widely on the economic of mental health, including the case for investment in mental health promotion in the workplace and the official background consensus paper on workplace mental health in the European Commission (EC) Mental Health Pact process. He is director of the Health Equity Network and a member of NICE’s Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee and also of an expert group advising on guidance on wellbeing in the workplace. He has authored over 60 papers in health policy and health economics and holds a range of grants in the mental health, public health and health promotion at European and national level.

David has advised governments, public and non governmental organisations, including the WHO, Department of Health, Scottish Government, NHS Scotland and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He has been involved in assessment of the economic case for complex interventions in the UK including Healthy Living Centres, reintegration into employment and population wide suicide prevention strategies. He is also co-convenor of the joint Campbell/Cochrane Collaboration Economic Methods Group.