Members of the City Health Economics Centre

Staff

For further information on our research interests and publications (including downloadable papers), select the links to our home pages.

Full-time:

David Parkin

Production and cost functions. Valuation of health states, particularly EQ-5D. Economic Evaluation. Modelling the cost effectiveness threshold. International comparisons of health care spending. Economics of waiting lists. Impact of fixed-price competition in the NHS.

email: d.parkin@city.ac.uk

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Professor Nancy Devlin

Valuation of health states, particularly EQ-5D. Modelling the cost effectiveness threshold. Modelling patient choice of health care provider. Economics of waiting lists. Impact of fixed-price competition in the NHS.

email: n.j.devlin@city.ac.uk

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Dr Mireia Jofre-Bonet

Impact of Substance Abuse and Mental Health on productivity. Economic Evaluation applied to Substance Abuse and to Eye Disease. Demand of Health Insurance and topics of Industrial Organization applied to the demand for Health Care.

email: mireia.jofre-bonet@city.ac.uk

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Associate members:

Professor John Appleby

Chief Economist, King's Fund

Health system funding and organisation. Economics of waiting lists. Impact of fixed-price competition in the NHS.

email: j.appleby@kingsfund.org.uk

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Dr John Edmunds

[Director of Economic Modelling, Health Protection Agency]

Economics of infectious diseases. Economic Evaluation of vaccination programmes.Economic epidemiology modelling

email: John.Edmunds@HPA.org.uk

Dr. Landis MacKellar

Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna.

Economic impact of Infectious diseases. Economic demographics.

Dr BegoƱa Garcia-Marinoso

General practitioners' referral behaviour. The regulation of pharmaceutical prices. The relationship between pharmaceutical reimbursement systems and costs. Industrial economics analysis of health care sector.

email: b.garcia-marinoso@city.ac.uk

PhD students:

Zia Sadique

Economics of infectious diseases. Microeconomic models of individuals' demand for vaccination. 

email: mzsadique@yahoo.com

Sofia Dimakou

The economics of waiting lists. Time-to-event analysis of waiting times in the NHS.

email: S.Dimakou@city.ac.uk

 

We also work closely with other academic staff in the Department of Economics, who offer expertise in econometrics, industrial economics, regulation and microeconomic theory that complement our research activities.