Health Economics

Entry requirements

We require applicants to hold, or be about to obtain, an Upper Second class Honours degree, or the equivalent qualification gained outside the UK, in a related subject area for entry to a PhD programme. A Lower Second class Honours degree may be considered if applicants also hold a Master's degree with a Merit classification.

Months of entry

January, April, September

Course content

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.