Milanne Galekop

Milanne Galekop is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management in Rotterdam at the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) department. She has a master degree in Health Economics and is affiliated with the Erasmus Choice Modelling Centre (ECMC).

 

Prevention of diet related diseases, such as diabetes type 2 or heart disease is receiving increasing attention over the years. A European Union Horizon 2020 project called  PREVENTOMICS is focusing on these preventable diseases via personalized nutrition. Milanne is involved in this project, where a new paradigm is built in preventive personalized nutrition exploiting the potential of omics sciences, especially metabolomics, and changes in habits as drivers of development.

 

As part of the project, PREVENTOMICS will deliver personalized nutrition tools validated in different scenarios in intervention studies. This will be done in the UK, Poland, Denmark and Spain. The researchers are interested in the cost-effectiveness of personalized nutrition interventions and therefore conducted a systematic review to the cost-effectiveness of personalized nutrition interventions in adults. Moreover, they will conduct cost-effectiveness analyses of the different intervention studies. 

 

The current research project entails fielding a discrete choice experiment (DCE). This study is about finding the preferences of people regarding different personalized nutrition interventions and to assess the willingness-to-pay. They believe that besides cost-effectiveness information about these interventions, preferences of people are relevant as well within the HTA. This DCE will therefore be conducted in 5 different countries (UK, Poland, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands).