Postgraduate research courses in Health Economics

University of Birmingham

Contact details:
The academic lead for PhDs in the department is Dr Emma Frew (e.frew@bham.ac.uk) Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT 

• Methodological and applied work in the area of economic evaluation
• Outcomes and capabilities measures
• Resource measurement and cost valuation
• Decision modelling and value of information analysis
• End of life care

City University, London

Contact details:
Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet
City University London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB

Programme details:
We have PhD studentships within the Economics Department that can fund PhD students doing health economics in our areas of expertise.
http://www.city.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/economics

University of East Anglia

Contact details:

The academic lead for PhDs in the department is Dr Tracey Sach (t.sach@uea.ac.uk) Health Economics Group, University of East Anglia, Earlham Road, Norwich NR4 7TJ

Programme details:

Topic areas covered include:

• Econometric modeling of individual and household health behaviours (e.g. self-assessed health, informal care, obesity etc.)
• Subjective well-being: determinants, econometric modelling and methodology (consistency, sensitivity etc.)
• Methodological and applied work in the area of economic evaluation
• Public health economics
• Resource measurement and cost valuation
• Stated preference techniques (choice experiments and contingent valuation): methodology (uncertainty, hypothetical bias, decision heuristics etc.) and applications (non-market valuation and general preference elicitation).
• Value of Information analysis

Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London 

• Economic evaluation of antipsychotic medication for children/adolescents
• Investigation into economic issues around genetic testing
• Multinational assessment of dementia costs

University of Leeds

• Health and employment
  Contact: Dr Claire Hulme (C.T.Hulme@leeds.ac.uk ), Dr Brenda Gannon (B.Gannon@leeds.ac.uk ), Dr Jenny Willson (J.Willson@leeds.ac.uk )
• Health economics and ageing
  Contact: Dr Brenda Gannon (B.Gannon@leeds.ac.uk ),Dr Claire Hulme (C.T.Hulme@leeds.ac.uk )
• Application of microeconometric analysis to health outcomes
  Contact: Dr Brenda Gannon (B.Gannon@leeds.ac.uk ), Dr Sandy Tubeuf (S.Tubeuf@leeds.ac.uk ), Dr Jenny Willson (J.Willson@leeds.ac.uk )
• Health policy and efficiency
  Contact: Dr Roberta Longo (R.Longo@leeds.ac.uk )
• Use of preference data in policy setting
  Contact: Dr. Richard Edlin (r.p.edlin@leeds.ac.uk )

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• An investigation of alternative statistical methods for cost-effectiveness analyses that use Cluster Randomised Trials
• Economic evaluation of the Maimwana project: a community-based randomised controlled trial to reduce neonatal and maternal mortality and mother-to-child transmission of HIV
• Economic evaluation of a community-based intervention: measuring the value to society
• Variations in performance of three public insurance schemes in Thailand
• Hospital autonomisation in Bogota, Colombia: a transactions cost economic analysis
• Economic analysis of the retail supply chain for malaria treatment in Cambodia
• The role of professional education and training in workforce migration
• The impact of medical tourism on the Thai health system
• Global Health Diplomacy: a meta narrative of the role of the World Health Organisation in the global governance of non-communicable disease and trade

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National University of Ireland, Galway

University of Oxford

Contact details:
Alison Gater – Administrator
Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF

Programme details:
There are opportunities for individuals to study for a DPhil in health economics in the Department of Public Health as full time students or as staff, under the supervision of a senior member of HERC.

Queen Margaret University

Contact details:
Janice Burr - Institute Officer
Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Musselburgh, EH21 6UU

Programme details:
Opportunities for PhD study are available in the Institute under the academic lead of Professor Barbara McPake. We are particularly interested in supervising topics in the area of economic analysis of health systems. Examples of our current student’s projects are available on our website: www.qmu.ac.uk/iihd

University of Sheffield

Contact details:
The academic lead for PhDs in the department is Dr Donna Rowen (D.Rowen@sheffield.ac.uk) Research Fellow, Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA

• Investigating the role of social value judgements in health care decision making
• The effect of respondent income on Time Trade-Off valuation
• Development of a paediatric disease specific measure of health-related quality of life in Amblyopia
• Good health: a foundation for the development of capabilities which foster well-being in the present and future
• Evidence for decision analytic models
• Methodologies of economic evaluation for innovative non-pharmaceutical health technologies
• A methodological framework for developing the structure of public health economic models
• Incorporating survival analysis into economic evaluations of advanced cancer treatments to inform resource allocation decisions
• Bayesian decision analysis in clinical research programmes - adding costs and benefits to decision rules and design
• Economic analysis of the A (H1N1) or swine flu vaccine in Mexico: A dynamic cost-effectiveness model

Swansea University

Contact details:
The academic Lead for PhDs is Dr Jaynie Rance. (J.Y.Rance@swansea.ac.uk). Jaynie is the Director of PhD Programmes across the College of Human and Health Sciences (not just health economics).

Alternatively, informal enquiries can be made to Professor Ceri Phillips, Professor of Health Economics at C.J.Phillips@swansea.ac.uk

Further details on how to apply for a PhD can be found at: www.swan.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/applying/

Programme details:
Current PhD topic areas include:

• Economic evaluation of pharmacist-led interventions for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease;
• Use of patient-reported outcome measures in cancer patients;
• Managing budget constraints utilising economic frameworks for disinvesment
• Assessing the costs and benefits of blood conservation methods in managing the collection and utilisation of allogeneic blood.
• Cost-effectiveness of work-based facilitation in clinical reasoning in musculoskeletal physiotherapy

University of Warwick

• The study of economic aspects of perinatal and paediatric health and health care
• The development of utility measurement in these contexts
• Methodological concerns surrounding the conduct of economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials.