Dr. Mikyung Seo (also known as Kelly) is a Lecturer in Value-Based Health Care (VBHC) and Health Economics at King’s College London (KCL). She is an Honorary Research Fellow in Health Economics at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Research Associate in Health Economics at Imperial College London. She is an experienced health economist, having worked for international organisations – including International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in Seoul – as well as Health Economics and Outcome Research (HEOR) consultancies in London.

Before joining King’s, Dr Seo worked as a senior health economist at Queen Mary University of London and Health Innovation East, and as a research fellow in health economics at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, where she continues to collaborate through her honorary appointments. Her research interests are in the cost-effectiveness of interventions and the delivery of value-based health services aimed at improving health across a wide range of health technologies, disease areas, and different patient and population groups, and the implementation of VBHC principles in both national and local health systems.

Her work focuses on the economic evaluation of health technologies, including diagnostics, cancer biomarkers, precision medicine, digital health, and AI-enabled tools. Her methodological expertise include: • Economic Evaluation (cost-effectiveness analysis) • Decision-Analytic Modelling • Health Technology Assessment • Survival Analysis • Discrete Choice Experiment • Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis • Budget Impact Analysis • Econometrics • Real World Evaluation Her research has been published in leading journals in health economics including PharmacoEconomics, Value in Health, and European Journal of Health Economics, and her work has supported national and international partners across the NHS, NIHR, industry, and public health organisations. 

She actively contributes to the field of health economics and health services research as an editorial board member (PharmacoEconomics) and as a peer reviewer for a range of leading health economics referred journals. She holds PhD in health economics from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and MSc in health policy, planning and financing from London School of Economics (LSE) and LSHTM.

*Prospective PhD students are welcome to contact me regarding opportunities in health economics and health services research.