About Us

Avalon Health Economics

Internationally recognized expertise in health economics, data analytics, and expert testimony

About Us

Our Core Elements

Avalon Health Economics is an internationally recognized healthcare consulting firm. Offers economic and strategic expertise to businesses and law firms globally.

Capabilities

Avalon Health Economics (AHE) is an internationally recognized healthcare consulting firm that offers economic and strategic expertise to businesses and law firms globally.  AHE has extensive experience and expertise in five principal service areas:

  • Litigation Economics.
  • Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR).
  • Policy & Regulatory Analysis.
  • Data Science & Statistical Modelling.
  • Data Science & Statistical Modeling.

Within each of these practice areas, we bring specific knowledge, skills, and experience to help our clients achieve their organizational objectives and overcome challenges in the development of rigorous research and compelling economic evidence.

Markets

The results of our work have informed policy debates, managerial decision making, and litigation outcomes across a broad range of clients, including medical device makers, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, law firms, and non-profit organizations.

Expertise

Our experts bring to each engagement many decades of experience across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including economics, health economics, data analytics, statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, health sciences, legal studies, and business management. Visit Our Team page, which provides more detail on each team member.

Ethos

Our philosophy and values consist of three core elements.

  • Rigorous Research. We rely on state-of-the-art methods and knowledge to guide our research and expert services. In many instances, the results of our work are published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
  • Senior Involvement. The ideal project team combines attentive project management with access to senior experts and staff.
  • Clarity Over Complexity. We adhere to the basic premise that excessive complexity does not always lead to better outcomes. Instead, in many cases, conceptually straightforward approaches are best, primarily because clear and transparent results are more easily communicated to stakeholders.
What We Do

Avalon Health Economics has extensive experience and expertise in five principal service areas

Litigation Economics

Litigation
Economics

Application of economic theory and methods to disputes and litigation, including expert testimony, damages, medical billing, and more.

Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Health Economics & Outcomes Research

Full spectrum of economic evaluation for novel drugs, devices, and diagnostics — from early development through market access.

Policy and Regulatory Analysis

Policy & Regulatory Analysis

Impact of healthcare policies and regulations on costs, outcomes, and organizational performance.

Data Science and Statistical Modeling

Data Science & Statistical Modeling

Advanced quantitative analysis including causal models, biostatistics, epidemiology, and machine learning applications.

Management and Strategy Consulting

Management & Strategy Consulting

Market research, competitive assessment, commercialization support, and evidence-based strategic advising.

Our Values

Guiding Principles That Drive Our Success

Rigorous Research

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Senior Involvement

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Clarity Over Complexity

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Our Team

Our Team

Our experts and support team have extensive experience, expertise, and training in the rigorous application of theory and methods from multiple disciplines, including health economics, economics, statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, health sciences, medicine, health services research, and business management.

The Team is led by John Schneider, PhD, and Cara Scheibling, MBA. Dr. Schneider has more than 35 years of experience, more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has provided testimony in more than 200 cases over the course of his career. Ms. Scheibling has more than 15 years of experience in health economics and litigation economics and has overseen the Avalon team and its growth since its inception. The core of the Avalon Health Economics team is its panel of experienced experts, which have broad expertise in economics, health economics, statistics, clinical medicine, biostatistics, health administration, and public health. The team is supported by senior economists and legal and policy analysts with extensive experience in analytics and project management.