Professor Hareth Al-Janabi PhD

• FHEA, University of Birmingham, 2020
• PhD in Health Economics, University of Bristol, 2009
• MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy, University of Birmingham, 2008
• BSc in Economics, University of Nottingham, 2001

Hareth graduated in economics from the University of Nottingham in 2001, and initially worked in
the Government Economics Service, first as an assistant economist at the Department of Health, and then as a policy adviser at the Treasury. He entered academia in 2005 to do a PhD at the University of Bristol, before moving to the University of Birmingham as a research fellow in 2008. He was appointed to the first cohort of Birmingham Fellows in 2012, promoted to senior lecturer in 2015 and Professor of Health Economics in 2020.

Teaching Programmes

• BSc Economics
• MSc Health Economics and Health Policy

Hareth has supervised three doctoral students to completion. Two are working in academia as health economists and one is working in an outcomes role in industry. Hareth is interested in supervising research students in the following areas:

• Economic issues related to unpaid/informal care.
• Economics of mental health
• Innovative applications of research methods to health economics

If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Hareth directly, or 
for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk

For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings  

Hareth’s research mainly focuses on developing economic evaluation techniques to better capture the full range of costs and benefits of healthcare interventions. To date he has focused on informal carers, family members, and the development of measures of capability (notably the ICECAP-A). Hareth uses a wide variety of research methods, including qualitative approaches (such as in-depth interviews, meta-ethnography, and cognitive interviews) and quantitative approaches (such as preference elicitation and econometrics).

Aside from researching economic evaluation methods, Hareth is also involved in projects on the impact of welfare reform on families and social values in relation to public health interventions. 

Hareth’s work has been funded through personal fellowships from the MRC, NIHR and the University of Birmingham, as well as collaborative grants, from the MRC, NIHR, Meningitis Research Foundation, STIRF, and British Academy.

 Twitter account for ICECAP capability measures: @icecapm

NIHR fellowship website: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/care-econ