Dr Angela Coulter

Dr Angela Coulter is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. She has had a long career in health services research and health policy analysis, with special interests in patient and public involvement. A social scientist by training, she has higher degrees in health services research from the University of London and the University of Oxford. Now freelance, she chairs Picker Institute Europe’s board of trustees and is past chair of the public advisory board of Health Data Research UK, the Birmingham, Rand and Cambridge Evaluation Centre (BRACE) steering group and the COMPAR-EU advisory board.

Her previous roles included chief executive of Picker Institute Europe, director of policy and development at the King’s Fund, director of the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Oxford, director of global initiatives at the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation and honorary professor at the University of Southern Denmark. She held non-executive director posts at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) from 2016-2019 and at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre from 2009 -2012. She was Doll Research Fellow in Preventive Medicine and Social Studies at Green College from 1987-1990.

She has published more than 350 research papers, articles and reports and several books, including The Autonomous Patient, The European Patient of the Future, The Global Challenge of Healthcare Rationing, Hospital Referrals, Engaging Patients in Healthcare and Understanding and Using Health Experiences. She was the founding editor of Health Expectations, an international peer-reviewed journal on patient and public involvement in health care and health policy.