Doctoral research

Areas of interest for doctoral research

Research area Lead supervisor

Adult social care

Phil Kinghorn

Capability and sufficient capability approach in health economic evaluations

Phil Kinghorn

Decision analytic modelling: methodology and use in economic evaluation

Pelham Barton

Sue Jowett

Disutilities and over-diagnosis in screening

Tracy Roberts

Economic issues related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Sue Jowett

Economic issues related to musculoskeletal disease

Sue Jowett

Economic issues related to prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease

Sue Jowett

Economic issues related to sexual, perinatal and women’s health

Tracy Roberts

Louise Jackson

Economic issues related to unpaid/informal care.

Hareth Al-Janabi

Economics of adult social care

Phil Kinghorn

Economics of digital health

Louise Jackson

Economics of mental health

Hareth Al-Janabi

Economics of obesity

Emma Frew

Economics of Public Health

Emma Frew

Economics of supportive end of life care

Phil Kinghorn

Hugh McLeod

Externalities and spillover effects in the healthcare sector

Hareth Al-Janabi

ICECAP capability measures to inform decision making (commissioning and service improvement) in health and care settings

Hugh McLeod

Innovative research methods for health economics

Hareth Al-Janabi

Measurement and valuation of healthcare benefits/outcomes

Hareth Al-Janabi

Louise Jackson

Phil Kinghorn

Hugh McLeod

Tracy Roberts

Trial-based economic evaluation

Sue Jowett

Current PhD students

Student Title Start date Supervisors

Sonja Bloch

Identifying and developing approaches for understanding the costs and outcomes of sexually transmitted infections control programmes to inform local decision-making

Oct 2018

Louise Jackson (lead), Emma Frew, Jonathan Ross (UHB)

Carol McLoughlin

Including ‘care-related’ quality of life in economic evaluation

Oct 2016

Hareth Al-Janabi (lead), Ilias Goranitis

Mark Monahan

An economic analysis of surgical site infection prevention in LMICs

May 2018

Tracy Roberts (lead), Sue Jowett

Syed Muslim

Measuring and accessing patient experience and satisfaction with sexual health services

Oct 2018

Tracy Roberts (lead), Louise Jackson, Jonathan Ross (UHB), Nicola Thorley (UHB)

Naijie Guan

Does financial literacy affect mental wellbeing?

Oct 2018

Hareth Al-Janabi (lead), Patrick Moore, Alessandra Guariglia (Economics)

Karen Pickering

The transferability of UK economic evaluations to lower income countries

April 2017

Tracy Roberts (lead), Raymond Oppong, Peter Brocklehurst (BCTU)

Fangzhou Xu

Economic shocks and mental wellbeing around the world

Oct 2018

Alessandra Guariglia (Economics), Hareth Al-Janabi

PhD alumni

Student Title Completed Supervisors

Magda Aguiar

Decision analytic modelling of the prevention of vitamin D deficiency in England and Wales

2018

Emma Frew (lead), Lazaros Andonis, Miranda Pallan (UoB), Wolfgang Högler (BCH)

Tuba Saygin Avşar

Economic evaluation of smoking cessation interventions for pregnant smokers

2020

Hugh McLeod (lead), Louise Jackson, Pelham Barton

Arjun Bhaduri

Including health spillovers in economic evaluations

2017

Hareth Al-Janabi (lead), Sue Jowett, Kate Jolly

Katie Breheny

Evaluating public health interventions from different perspectives in one setting. The case of health and wellbeing interventions in schools.

2020

Emma Frew (lead), Jo Coast (Bristol), Iestyn Williams (HSMC)

Hannah Bromley

Identifying and quantifying the benefits and harms associated with treatment for DCIS for use in the economic evaluation of breast screening programmes

2020

Tracy Roberts (lead), Adele Francis (Cancer Sciences), Dennis Petrie (Melbourne), Bruce Mann (Melbourne)

Alistair Canaway

Capturing the impacts of end of life care on those close to the dying for use in economic evaluation

2015

Jo Coast (Bristol), Hareth Al-Janabi, Phil Kinghorn

Chidubem Chriscasimir

Developing and piloting approaches for the valuation of outcomes associated with sexually transmitted infections in order to construct quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for use in economic evaluations

2018

Tracy Roberts (lead), Louise Jackson, Phil Kinghorn

Lavanya Diwakar

A systematic evaluation of paediatric allergy services in the West Midlands

2018

Tracy Roberts (lead), Carole Cummins (UoB), Richard Lilford (Warwick)

Samuel Frempong

The health economics of the application of diagnostics in a developing country context (Ghana)

2019

Pelham Barton (lead), Andrew Sutton Clare Davenport (UoB)

James Hall

An exploration of the use of decision modelling in assessment of cost-effectiveness of stratified care in musculoskeletal disease

2020

Sue Jowett (lead), Raymond Oppong, Kika Konstantinou (Keele), Reuben Ogollah (Keele)

Sam Husbands

A qualitative analysis of the model-building process

2016

Jo Coast (lead), Sue Jowett, Pelham Barton

Mohammed Kashm

Priority setting in Saudi Arabia: Understanding the Context and Use of Economic Evaluation

2015

Jo Coast (Bristol), Emma Frew

Thomas Keeley

Capability as an outcome measure in randomised controlled trials

2014

Jo Coast (lead), Hareth Al-Janabi

Helen McAteer

The use of health economics in the early evaluation of regenerative medicine therapies

2011

Richard Lilford (Warwick), Emma Frew

Paul Mitchell

Exploring the capability approach in model-based economic evaluations

2013

Jo Coast (lead), Tracy Roberts, Pelham Barton

Henry Nwankwo

The impact of different trajectories of dying on the opportunity for a good death

2020

Fiona Irvine (Lead; Clinical Sciences), Dr Cara Bailey (Nursing), Jo Coast (Bristol), Phil Kinghorn

Raymond Oppong

Economic analysis alongside multinational studies

2017

Sue Jowett (lead), Tracy Roberts

Cristina Penaloza

The use of best practice guidelines and the effect of alternative model structures in results of cost-effectiveness: an analysis with emphasis in cardiovascular disease

2017

Pelham Barton (lead), Sue Jowett, Andrew Sutton (Leeds)

Sabina Sanghera

A comparison of welfarist and extra welfarist approaches to valuing outcomes in menorrhagia

2014

Tracy Roberts (lead), Emma Frew

Mandana Zangereh

Cross-cultural comparisons of obesity prevention in children: United Kingdom, Spain and China

2020

Emma Frew (lead), Peymané Adab (Public Health), Bai Li (Public Health)

Dawit Zemedikun

Exploring, quantifying and updating estimates of the economic burden of back pain in the UK using routine data

2020

Tracy Roberts (lead), Jesse Kigozi, Alessandra Guariglia (Economics), Gwenllian Wynne-Jones (Keele), Majid Artus (Keele)