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

Dr Emma McIntosh

  • Economic evaluation alongside trials
  • Economic evaluation of population health interventions
  • Stated Preference Discrete Choice Experiments (SPDCE) 
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Economics of Parkinson’s Disease