Mara S. Rodrigues is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Manchester Centre for Health Economics (MCHE), University of Manchester. She is trained micro economist. Her current research focuses on applied and methodological aspects of health economic modelling, with an emphasis on evaluating the cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions. She is currently part of a multidisciplinary team conducting an economic evaluation of pharmacogenetic testing in the NHS. She has expertise in a range of qualitative and quantitative methods, including decision-analytic modelling, micro-costing, network meta-analysis, and discrete choice experiments (DCE), as well as other advanced modelling techniques. Maria also co-leads the North West Health Economics Group, a regional network connecting health economists across the North West of England. In addition, she is an advisor for the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS).