Professor Borislava Mihaylova

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Borislava Mihaylova

MSc, DPhil

Professor of Health Economics

Health Economics Research Centre

Borislava (Boby) Mihaylova is Professor of Health Economics at the Health Economics Research Centre in Oxford Population Health.

Her research programme focuses on economic aspects of chronic disease (such as cardiovascular, chronic kidney disease and diabetes) and comprises studies of the impact of disease events and interventions on morbidity, mortality, health-related quality of life and healthcare costs; development of disease models to evaluate long-term effects of disease and interventions, cost-effectiveness analyses of healthcare interventions and studies of socio-economic determinants of health.

She is leading/has led the development of the economic analyses in a number of large randomised controlled trials (EMPA-KIDNEY, ACST-2, REVEAL, SHARP, THRIVE) and in the individual participant data meta-analysis of statin trials (Cholesterol Treatment Collaboration).

Her work on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of statins for cardiovascular disease prevention in the Heart Protection Study and the Cholesterol Treatment Collaboration has been influential in informing treatment recommendations for people at different vascular disease risk.

Key publications

FedExIT - Missing Class-agnostic Semi-Supervised Federated Learning with Extreme Imbalance Tackling Scheme

Saha P. et al, (2026), Information Fusion, 130, 104080 - 104080

Perceptions of death, dying and the body in Vietnamese culture: A qualitative exploration from a study examining the potentials of minimally invasive tissue sampling in Vietnam

Doan NP. et al, (2026), Ssm Qualitative Research in Health, 9

Clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and their association with socio-demographic and lifestyle factors in middle-aged and older adults in rural northeast South Africa: Findings from HAALSI

Mhembere MN. et al, (2026), Public Health, 254, 106246 - 106246

Trends in pneumothorax mortality in England (2004–2023): a population-based observational study

Zhong X. et al, (2026), The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 64, 101632 - 101632

Basal metabolic rate and risk for diabetes and its complications among 341,790 adults from the UK Biobank

Frimpong J. et al, (2026), Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 235, 113198 - 113198

Dynamic Count Models with Flexible Innovation Processes for Irregular Maritime Migration

Zens G. and Bijak J., (2026), Annals of Applied Statistics

clinician’s guide to probabilistic suicide risk prediction tools

Webb J. and Fazel S., (2026), The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1 - 2

Perinatal palliative care: how to approach antenatal counselling

Bertaud S., (2026), Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education and Practice Edition

The Rogan-Gladen estimator for outcome misclassification

Edwards J. et al, (2026), American Journal of Epidemiology

Primer on Large-Sample Statistical Inference for Epidemiologists

Shook-Sa B. et al, (2026), Epidemiologic Methods

‘Readiness’ as a model to explain the differing adoption rates of gene editing technology in the laboratory and industrial manufacturing sites

Morrison M. and Bartlett A., (2026), Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 1 - 22

Sleep and circadian health in the UK Biobank: Report on the 2023 sleep questionnaire enhancement.

Tse KYK. et al, (2026), Sleep

Ethics of Antibiotic Course Duration: Shorter is Better.

Johnson T. et al, (2026), Am J Bioeth, 1 - 15

Schistosoma mansoni infections are associated with hepatosplenic organometry within the context of repeated praziquantel treatment and co-endemic infections of malaria, hepatitis B, and HIV: a population-based study in rural Uganda

Seggelke K. et al, (2026)

Associations of 6600 SomaScan proteins with demographic, lifestyle, environmental and health characteristics in Chinese adults

CHEN Z. et al, (2026), Scientific Reports

Causes of excess non-lymphoma death in 58,000 patients with DLBCL diagnosed during 1997-2020 and followed for up to 25 years.

Challenger A. et al, (2026), Blood Adv

Change in early respiratory management of infants born at less than 30 weeks' gestation in England and Wales: an observational cohort study.

Farley H. et al, (2026), Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed

The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK's national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024-29.

Johnson T. et al, (2026), Lancet Microbe

Interplay of Age and Sex With Clinic and Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Mortality.

Böhm M. et al, (2026), Hypertension

Producing Value or Responding to Valuation?

Morrison M. and Bicudo E., (2026), Science & Technology Studies

In the wake of USAID cuts, we can create a Demographic and Health Survey Program founded on more equitable data infrastructure and stronger research integrity.

Abdel Ghany J. et al, (2026), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 123

Bayesian machine learning enables discovery of risk factors for hepatosplenic multimorbidity related to schistosomiasis.

Zhi Y-C. et al, (2026), Nat Commun

Schistosoma mansoni infections are associated with faecal calprotectin markers of gut inflammation after accounting for HIV, hepatitis B, and malaria

Wilburn L. et al, (2026), Journal of Infectious Diseases

Life Identification Number Barcoding (LIN Code) System for Neisseria meningitidis: high resolution multi-level typing of meningococci.

Parfitt KM. et al, (2026)

Factors associated with adherence to allocated treatment in the ASCEND trial: a mail-based randomised trial of aspirin and of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation in people with diabetes.

Madurasinghe VW. et al, (2026), Trials, 27

Beyond Good and Bad: Rethinking Solidarity and Coercion in Public Health.

Johnson T. et al, (2026), Am J Bioeth, 1 - 14

Impact of sleep habits on life expectancy free of cardiovascular disease in the Chinese population: a prospective cohort study.

Sun Q. et al, (2026), J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci

Vegetarian diets and cancer risk: pooled analysis of 1.8 million women and men in nine prospective studies on three continents.

Dunneram Y. et al, (2026), Br J Cancer

Temporary Shock or Lasting Scar? Life Expectancy Trajectories Since COVID-19

Dowd JB. et al, (2026)

Genetic substructure in Latin American individuals reveals novel associations, mechanistic insights, and variable polygenic risk score transferability for alcohol traits

Montalvo-Ortiz J. et al, (2026)

Young adulthood adiposity in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults.

Fan L. et al, (2026), Sci Bull (Beijing)

Cause-specific excess mortality in rural India during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2023: longitudinal analyses of deaths in 0.2 million rural health facilities.

Kumar P. et al, (2026), BMJ Open, 16

Cause-specific excess mortality in rural India during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2023: longitudinal analyses of deaths in 0.2 million rural health facilities.

Kumar P. et al, (2026), BMJ Open, 16

Towards a Multi-sectoral Approach to Population Health: A Scoping Review of Cross-sectoral Evaluations of Health Interventions.

Koleva-Kolarova R. et al, (2026), Appl Health Econ Health Policy

Normative growth trajectories of fetal brain regions validated by satisfactory maturation of neurodevelopmental domains at 2 years of age.

Wyburd MK. et al, (2026), Nat Commun

Is liquid biopsy a cost-effective method to diagnose Burkitt Lymphoma in children and young adults? A health economic evaluation in Tanzania.

Jiang J. et al, (2026), BMC Med

Parent and practitioner experiences of opt-out consent in neonatal intensive care: a mixed methods study within a trial.

Mitchell T. et al, (2026), Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed, 111, F162 - F168

Cohort Prevalence Estimates Are Sensitive to Prebaseline Mortality: A Research Note Using Cognitive Impairment Data From the HAALSI Cohort in Rural South Africa.

Rosenberg M. et al, (2026), Demography

Circulating proteomic landscape of lung function.

Lee M. et al, (2026), Eur Respir J

Parent-led CBT delivered via online and telephone support alongside usual school practice versus usual school practice only for young children identified as at risk for anxiety disorders through screening in schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Reardon T. et al, (2026), J Child Psychol Psychiatry

Reproducibility and associated regression dilution bias of accelerometer-derived physical activity and sleep in UK Biobank.

Zisou C. et al, (2026), Int J Epidemiol, 55

Genomics link obesity and type 2 diabetes to Alzheimer's disease to unveil novel biological insights.

Cunha C. et al, (2026), medRxiv

Influence of stage at cancer diagnosis on NHS hospital care costs in England: a national, retrospective, population-based cohort study using individual patient-level data.

Pearson C. et al, (2026), Lancet Oncol

Biobanking knowledge and donation willingness among musculoskeletal patients in England: a multisite cross-sectional study.

Boakye Serebour T. et al, (2026), BMJ Open, 16

Maternal iron status and total immunoglobulin-G influence transplacental antibody transfer across eight diverse geographical settings.

Tiley KS. et al, (2026), Vaccine, 73

Metabolomic profile of genetic liability to type 2 diabetes among 125,000 Mexican adults: a Mendelian randomisation study

BRAGG F. et al, (2026), Diabetes Care

Kidney function and mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 130 000 adults

Aguilar Ramirez D. et al, (2026), Kidney Medicine

Relationships between alcohol use and dementia: protocol for an observational study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

Fatih N. et al, (2026), BMJ Open, 16

Deformation-Recovery diffusion model (DRDM): Instance deformation for image manipulation and synthesis.

Zheng J-Q. et al, (2026), Med Image Anal, 110

Recent publications

Assessment of adverse effects attributed to statin therapy in product labels: a meta-analysis of double-blind randomised controlled trials.

Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaboration. Electronic address: ctt@ndph.ox.ac.uk . and Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaboration ., (2026), Lancet

Improving outcomes in adult patients who self-harm-evaluating a brief psychological intervention in emergency departments (ASSURED): protocol of a randomised controlled clinical trial.

McCabe R. et al, (2026), Trials

Quality of life of primary caregivers by severity and control of children's asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Tomini F. et al, (2025), Qual Life Res, 34, 3425 - 3445

2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease.

Praz F. et al, (2025), Eur Heart J, 46, 4635 - 4736

2025 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease and pregnancy.

De Backer J. et al, (2025), Eur Heart J, 46, 4462 - 4568

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