Brendan Mulhern (MRes) is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics and Outcomes Measurement at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE), University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He previously worked at the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include the development of both generic and condition specific preference based measures for use in economic evaluation. Example studies include the development of the EQ-5D-5L value set for England/UK, and (along with Prof. Brazier) a large international study developing version 2 of the SF-6D (SF-6Dv2).

He is also involved in research developing and testing of new and innovative methods for valuing health. He is also interested in developing non preference based measures of health and quality of life, and testing and comparing the psychometric performance of existing instruments using Item Response Theory methods. 

He is a member of the EuroQol Group, the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL), the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), the International Academy for Health Preference Research (IAHPR) and the Australian Health Economics Society (AHES). He is a member of the ISPOR Australia Committee.