Health Economics (Research)

Our PhD/MPhil Health Economics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Health Economics.

Our main research themes within health economics apply or develop economic methods to understand

• incentives and provider performance;

• equity in healthcare and geographical resource allocation;

• workforce planning and determinants of labour supply;

• measurement and valuation of preferences for benefits of healthcare;

• determinants of variation in healthcare costs and benefits;

• economic evaluation of complex cross-therapeutic interventions;

• utilisation of routinely collected data across health and social care to value costs and benefits in economic evaluation;

• causal analysis of complex interventions, complex needs and less-regulated (mainly diagnostic) services;

• innovative study design to take account of complexity in intervention design and increase in emphasis on integration of

  health and social care;

The research covers a number of clinical areas, including for example, ageing, mental health, precision medicine and patient safety.