We aim to improve population health and well-being through:
- rigorous, applied, policy-relevant research in health economics
- continuous reflection on, and advancement of, methodology
- inspiring, teaching and enabling others to include economics early and often in decisions concerning population health
Our research focuses on the efficiency and equity implications of alternative ways of delivering improvements in health, quality-of-life and wellbeing. We consider new technologies, complex re-organisation of services, and the role of information. We undertake economic evaluation alongside trials, observational studies and as decision-models, and use health econometrics with big data.
We enjoy working in enthusiastic, collaborative, creative, respectful, productive, multi-disciplinary teams.
Our most common clinical areas of application include preventive health, cardiovascular disease and long-term conditions, maternal and child health, and surgery.
Publications
Awards
Understanding Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTCs) in Lambeth and Southwark. GSTT, Impact on Urban Health
Better healthcare for children and young people in Lambeth and Southwark: Children and Young People's Health Partnership (CYPHP). GSTT, Impact on Urban Health
Technology Enhanced Integrated Asthma Care: TEAM-care. NIHR, i4i
Overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences: ORACLE.NIHR PRP
Post-pandemic planning for maternity care for local, regional, and national maternity systems across the four nations. NIHR HS & DR
Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data. PGfAR diverse programmes: Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data (nihr.ac.uk) NIHR
Neonatal Wireless Monitoring System for Intensive Care. NIHR i4i
Stroke Care In Sierra Leone –SISLE: Global Health Group in Non-Communicable Disease
Measuring the impact of stroke in Sierra Leone through stroke register methodology. UKRI/MRC Clinical Training Fellowship
Assessing feasibility of economic evaluation alongside a full trial for 'Optibreech Care'
Activities
Presenting
Siddesh Shetty recently presented the conceptual model for a cost-effectiveness analysis of a new model of care for delivering breech babies at term at the British Intrapartum Care Society Conference in London (29-30th September 2022). Dr Dan Youkee will present 'Longer term outcomes after stroke in Sierra Leone' at the Africa-Mortality Symposium in Sierra Leone on 29-30 November.
Teaching and training
We teach health economics at Master’s level on campus (7MHPH010 Health Economics) and online (7MRHPH09 Health Economics for Public Health) and supervise MSc and MPH dissertations. Twice a year (spring and autumn), we provide three introductory courses on economic evaluation for KCL staff through the NIHR GSTT BRC (an overview, using models, measuring and valuing cost and resource use).
PhD supervision
We welcome contact from prospective PhD applicants interested in using and developing the ideas and methods of health economics. We are interested in receiving applications that focus on substantive and methodological contributions to economic evaluation, measurement and valuation of health-related quality of life, and health econometrics. Particular topics of current interest include; the design and testing of financial incentives for physical activity, economic evaluation of risk-stratified interventions and disease screening, and innovative econometric techniques applied to big data to identify drivers of health service use, costs, and quality of care. Please contact Julia.Fox-Rushby@kcl.ac.uk for further information
Visiting PhD student
HELM is hosting International PhD student, Alene Sze Jing Yong, from the Monash PhD Global Mobility Program for 2 months from 19th October. She will be working with Prof Julia Fox-Rushby and Dr Ka Keat Lim analysing longitudinal changes in willingness to pay for outcomes of cancer treatment, and assessing approaches to integrating willingness to pay benefit estimates into policy.
PhD students
Dr Daniel Youkee: “Measuring the impact of stroke in Sierra Leone – Stroke register methodology in low resource settings.” (Supervisors: I Marshall, J Fox-Rushby, M Soley-Bori).
Meryem Cicek. “Investigating multimorbidity among patients with depression and the relationship with unplanned secondary care utilisation in Northwest London.” (Supervisors: B Hayhoe, G, Greenfield, M. Harris, M Soley-Bori).
Takuya Yamanaka “Mitigating the economic impact of TB and diabetes in the Philippines.” (Supervisors: A Vassall, Y Laurence, S Cox).
Publications
Awards
Understanding Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTCs) in Lambeth and Southwark. GSTT, Impact on Urban Health
Better healthcare for children and young people in Lambeth and Southwark: Children and Young People's Health Partnership (CYPHP). GSTT, Impact on Urban Health
Technology Enhanced Integrated Asthma Care: TEAM-care. NIHR, i4i
Overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences: ORACLE.NIHR PRP
Post-pandemic planning for maternity care for local, regional, and national maternity systems across the four nations. NIHR HS & DR
Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data. PGfAR diverse programmes: Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data (nihr.ac.uk) NIHR
Neonatal Wireless Monitoring System for Intensive Care. NIHR i4i
Stroke Care In Sierra Leone –SISLE: Global Health Group in Non-Communicable Disease
Measuring the impact of stroke in Sierra Leone through stroke register methodology. UKRI/MRC Clinical Training Fellowship
Assessing feasibility of economic evaluation alongside a full trial for 'Optibreech Care'
Activities
Presenting
Siddesh Shetty recently presented the conceptual model for a cost-effectiveness analysis of a new model of care for delivering breech babies at term at the British Intrapartum Care Society Conference in London (29-30th September 2022). Dr Dan Youkee will present 'Longer term outcomes after stroke in Sierra Leone' at the Africa-Mortality Symposium in Sierra Leone on 29-30 November.
Teaching and training
We teach health economics at Master’s level on campus (7MHPH010 Health Economics) and online (7MRHPH09 Health Economics for Public Health) and supervise MSc and MPH dissertations. Twice a year (spring and autumn), we provide three introductory courses on economic evaluation for KCL staff through the NIHR GSTT BRC (an overview, using models, measuring and valuing cost and resource use).
PhD supervision
We welcome contact from prospective PhD applicants interested in using and developing the ideas and methods of health economics. We are interested in receiving applications that focus on substantive and methodological contributions to economic evaluation, measurement and valuation of health-related quality of life, and health econometrics. Particular topics of current interest include; the design and testing of financial incentives for physical activity, economic evaluation of risk-stratified interventions and disease screening, and innovative econometric techniques applied to big data to identify drivers of health service use, costs, and quality of care. Please contact Julia.Fox-Rushby@kcl.ac.uk for further information
Visiting PhD student
HELM is hosting International PhD student, Alene Sze Jing Yong, from the Monash PhD Global Mobility Program for 2 months from 19th October. She will be working with Prof Julia Fox-Rushby and Dr Ka Keat Lim analysing longitudinal changes in willingness to pay for outcomes of cancer treatment, and assessing approaches to integrating willingness to pay benefit estimates into policy.
PhD students
Dr Daniel Youkee: “Measuring the impact of stroke in Sierra Leone – Stroke register methodology in low resource settings.” (Supervisors: I Marshall, J Fox-Rushby, M Soley-Bori).
Meryem Cicek. “Investigating multimorbidity among patients with depression and the relationship with unplanned secondary care utilisation in Northwest London.” (Supervisors: B Hayhoe, G, Greenfield, M. Harris, M Soley-Bori).
Takuya Yamanaka “Mitigating the economic impact of TB and diabetes in the Philippines.” (Supervisors: A Vassall, Y Laurence, S Cox).
Our Partners
Royal Papworth Hospital
College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences at the University of Sierra Leone
University of Cambridge
Biomedical Research Centre
Impact on Urban Health
Medical Research Council
Institute for Women’s and Childrens Health
