Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA)

PhD Opportunities

Subject areas in which HEHTA staff can offer supervision

 Professor Andrew Briggs Lindsay Chair in Health Policy and Economic Evaluation

• Statistical methods for cost-effectiveness analysis
• Decision modelling methods for health economic evaluations
• The economics of diagnosis

Dr Elisabeth Fenwick Senior Lecturer in Health Economics

• Economic evaluations using decision modelling
• Evaluations of health care interventions or systems using modelling or simulation
• Economic evaluations of interventions for obesity
• Applications of simulation modelling for health evaluation

Dr Jim Lewsey Senior Lecturer

• Chronic Disease Epidemiology
• Advanced survival analysis
• Advanced statistical modelling
• Multi-state modelling
• Data linkage projects

Dr Rebecca Shaw Lecturer in Social Science

• Research using qualitative methods of data collection and analysis (including conversation analysis)
• Process evalautions of interventions to improve health
• Interactions and communication between health care professionals and patients
• Understanding people's health and illness experiences (across a range of clinical areas)

 Dr Olivia Wu Reader in Health Economics

• Evidence Synthesis
• Economic Evaluation