Darrin Baines is a British health economist, researcher, and consultant. He is the founder of HealthEconomic.Pro, Analytics.Systems, and IntelligentParameters.com. Doctor Baines is known for his work on health economics, health systems, pharmacy practice, and National Health Service (NHS) productivity. His research integrates economics, philosophy, and semantics, focusing on the foundations of knowledge and applied decision-making.
Academic career
Dr. Baines has held three professorial appointments in health economics at Coventry University, Bournemouth University, and the University of Lincoln. He has designed and launched three master’s degrees in health economics at the University of Birmingham, the University of South Wales, and Cairo University.
He has also led large-scale international knowledge transfer networks in China and Egypt, funded by the British Council and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). These initiatives connected leading academic institutions in the UK (including the Universities of York, Sheffield, Leeds, Coventry, and Bournemouth,) and China (Fudan, Shandong and ), facilitating collaboration between academia and applied practice.
Research
Darrin Baines has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed and trade journals. His research covers health economics, and health systems, as well as widely cited work on misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. His recent projects explore the application of the semantic layer to health economic modeling and thinking.
Policy and advisory work
Dr. Baines has advised the UK government on matters of health policy and NHS productivity. His advisory focus includes the alignment of meaning, measurement, and verification within complex decision systems. His work bridges economics, ethics, and public policy, with an emphasis on transparent and reproducible reasoning in policy evaluation.
Consultancy
Through his companies — HealthEconomic.Pro, Analytics.Systems, and IntelligentParameters.com — Baines provides consultancy and training in applied health economics, model validation, and knowledge system design. His clients include governments, pharmaceutical companies, and international organizations. His consulting practice emphasizes the translation of complex analytical methods into practical solutions for decision-making, policy design, and capacity building.
Philosophy and innovation
Baines’ intellectual work extends beyond economics into philosophy and computational epistemology. His projects involve the creation of machine-readable, semantic knowledge frameworks designed to enhance transparency and interoperability in science. Through Intelligent Parameters, he is developing a Semantic Web of Health Economics, allowing models, methods, and assumptions to be published in linked, verifiable forms accessible to both humans and artificial intelligence systems.