JANEL HANMER

Health Utility Measurement

About Me

I am a clinician researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. I am board certified in Internal Medicine and am an attending physician on General Medicine floors at UPMC-Presbyterian. I also have a PhD in Population Health Sciences.


My primary research focus is health-related quality of life measurement, particularly health utility measurement. I strongly believe that precise, accurate measurement is the foundation of good science and good policy. I also strongly believe that health-related quality of life is the most important outcome of health services.


My research is mostly methodological – I have worked on establishing national normative values for health measures, evaluating the effects of mode of administration, and testing different methods to model populations with multiple health conditions. I am currently developing a preference-based scoring function for PROMIS.