Speaker Details

Dr Joy Allen

Head of Market Access and Public Affairs, Roche Diagnostics

Joy has been with Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland since 2021, where she initially joined as a Health Economics Manager. Joy leads the health economics, public affairs and market access teams to support broader patient access to diagnostics and devices which provide benefits to patients and the health care system.

Prior to joining Roche, Joy spent over 10 years at the NIHR-funded In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative Newcastle as a Senior Methodologist. There, she led a team of interdisciplinary scientists to support healthtech developers with evidence development and access requirements for adoption into the UK NHS. Notably, during the pandemic Joy was a co-founder of the COVID-19 National Diagnostic Research and Evaluation Platform (CONDOR) which provided a single national route to evaluate new diagnostic tests for COVID-19 as well as a contributing member of the NIHR Urgent Public Health Committee.

In addition to her role at Roche, Joy is a member of the NICE Diagnostics Advisory Committee where she contributes significantly to decision-making processes in health technology assessments. Additionally, Joy maintains robust academic collaborations, and is a productive author, regularly publishing on improving methodological approaches to healthtech evaluations.