City Health Economics Centre

Department of Economics

Research interests:

• health production functions and lifestyle decisions
• adaptation to health states
• the impact of substance abuse and mental health on productivity
• economic evaluation applied to substance abuse and to eye disease.

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Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences

• organisational change and the role of healthcare professionals in supporting or resisting it
• the implementation of health system reforms and large scale change in healthcare
• the adoption and diffusion of health innovations and the use of evidence in the process
• leading for patient safety and nurturing an organisational safety culture

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Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences

Research interests:

• extent and direction of inequities in health care access
• underlying causes for these inequities
• the extent to which health programs and policies bridge these inequalities.

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Lecturer, Department of Economics

Research interests:

• technology uptake and diffusion in health care
• provider competition
• adoption to health states
• the effect of economic downturns on health behaviours and outcomes.

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Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences

Research interests:

• understanding individual behaviour in health
• decision-making and the physician-patient relationship
• patient safety
• the impact of financial crisis on health and health care.

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Department of Economics

Research interests:

• ICT and media
• mental health
• vaccinations
• self reported health

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Department of Economics

Research interests:

• applied microeconomics
• health economics & NHS policy
• urban, housing and spatial economics
• behavioural economics

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• Iris Lopes-Rafegas
  Subject: “Essays on eating disorders: predisposing factors, peers networks, and later-in-life consequences of having been diagnosed.”
  Type: Full-time
  Degree expected: 2020.
• Bandar Aleissa
  Subject: Economic evaluations of personalised medicine in cancer.
  Type: Full-time.
  Degree expected: 2020.
• Chandanee Wasana Kalansooriya
  Subject: ‘Topics in Non-Communicable Diseases in Sri Lanka’
  Type: Full-time
  Degree expected: 2023

• Ekaterina Kusnetzova: 'Essays on attitudes towards risk and health risks of Immigrants and its relationship with Hepatitis B vaccine uptake in the UK'. January 2019
• Xenia Radu: 'Essays on the impact of the changes in financial ratings on the health and well-being of some European countries: A Natural Experiment.' July 2018
• Elisa Ruiz Burga: ‘Migration, identity and risk: the experiences of migrant male sex workers in London’. Dec 2017
• Amira El-Shal: 'Essays on the impact on children's and maternal health of the health care reforms in Egypt: A Natural Experiment.' December 2016
• Joseph Kamara: 'Essays on the willingness and ability to pay for health insurance in the informal sector in Sierra Leone using a Discrete Choice Experiment.' 2015
• Melcior Rossello-Roig: 'Topics on Health and Lifestyle Decisions: A Microeconometric Approach.' March 2017
• Angeliki Bistaraki: ‘Interagency collaboration in mass gatherings: the case of public health and safety organisations in the 2012 London Olympic Games’. March 2017
• Carl Camilleri: “Topics on the Introduction of the DRG system in Malta”. March 2015
• Sofia Dimakou: “Waiting time distributions and national targets for elective surgery in UK: theoretical modelling and duration analysis”. December 2012
• MZ Sadique: “Essays on the willingness to pay for vaccination”, 2008
• Maria Raikou: ‘Essays on the medical care costs under conditions of censoring”, 2002
• Steve Morris: “An economic analysis of nurses earnings in Britain", 2002.

Kings Fund

Research interests:

• topics in health policy.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Research interests:

• economic evaluation
• health technology assessment.

Economist, Office of Health Economics

Research interests:

• estimation of health effects
• evaluation of policy interventions
• health-related econometric models
• theory of preferences for chronic health states
• self-reported health measures.

Office of Health Economics

Research interests:

• measurement and valuation of patient reported health outcomes
• the cost effectiveness thresholds used in making judgements about value for money in health care
• priority setting in health care
• the production, performance and efficiency of hospitals
• the determinants of patient choice.

University of York

Research interests:

• economic evaluation of health care interventions.

Lecturer  Brunel  University London

• Economic evaluation
• Mathematical modelling
• Cancer
• Infectious diseases

Research interests:

• applied health economics focusing on value for money in health care
• hospital performance, competition
• equity in health care markets
• the drivers of the costs of cancer in England.

Office of Health Economics

Research interests:

• pharmaceutical R&D
• pharmaceutical expenditure forecasting
• the economics of biosimilars
• antibiotics.

Kings College London

Research interests:

• measurement and valuation of patient reported health outcomes
• the cost effectiveness thresholds used in making judgements about value for money in health care
• priority setting in health care
• the production, performance and efficiency of hospitals
• the determinants of patient choice.

• Camilleri, C., Jofre-Bonet, M. and Serra-Sastre, V. (2018). The suitability of a DRG casemix system in the Maltese hospital setting. Health Policy, 122(11), pp. 1183–1189. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.08.002 .
• Jofre-Bonet, M., Serra-Sastre, V. and Vandoros, S. (2018). The impact of the Great Recession on health-related risk factors, behaviour and outcomes in England. Social Science and Medicine, 197, pp. 213–225. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.010 .
• Johnston, D.W., Shields, M.A., & Suziedelyte, A. (20187). Victimisation, Wellbeing and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime. Economic Journal. 28(611), 1545-1569.
• Laliotis, I. and Stavropoulou, C. (2018). Crises and mortality: Does the level of unemployment matter? Social Science and Medicine, 214, pp. 99–109.
• Stephensen, D., Hashem, F., Corbett, K., Bates, A., George, M., Hobbs, R.P., Hopkins, M., Hutchins, I., Lowery D., Pellat-Higgins, T., Stavropoulou, C., Swaine, I., Tomlinson, L., Woodward, H., and Ali, H. (2018). Effects of preoperative and postoperative resistance exercise interventions on recovery of physical function in patients undergoing abdominal surgery for cancer: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. BMJ open sport & exercise medicine, 4(1).

• Black, N., Johnston, D.W., Shields, M.A. and Suziedelyte, A. (2017). Who provides inconsistent reports of their health status? The importance of age, cognitive ability and socioeconomic status. Social Science and Medicine, 191, pp. 9–18.
• Kohli-Lynch, M., Russell, N.J., Seale, A.C., Dangor, Z., Tann, C.J., Baker, C.J., Bartlett, L., Cutland, C., Gravett, M.G., Heath, P.T., Ip, M., Le Doare, K., Madhi, S.A., Rubens, C.E., Saha, S.K., Schrag, S., Sobanjo-Ter Meulen, A., Vekemans, J., O'Sullivan, C., Nakwa, F., Ben Hamouda, H., Soua, H., Giorgakoudi, K., Ladhani, S., Lamagni, T., Rattue, H., Trotter, C. and Lawn, J.E. (2017). Neurodevelopmental Impairment in Children After Group B Streptococcal Disease Worldwide: Systematic Review and Meta-analyses.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 65(suppl_2), pp. S190–S199.
• Alzahrani, F. and Kyratsis, Y. (2017). Emergency nurse disaster preparedness during mass gatherings: a cross-sectional survey of emergency nurses' perceptions in hospitals in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. BMJ OPEN, 7(4). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013563.
• Bharadwaj, P., Pai, M., & Suziedelyte, A. (2017). Mental health stigma. Economic Letter.
• Black, N., Johnston, D.W., &  Suziedelyte A. (2017). Justification bias in self-reported disability: New evidence from panel data, Journal of Health Economics, 54: 124-34.
• Clarke CS, Hunter RM,  Shemilt I, & Serra-Sastre V. (2017). Multi-arm Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) comparing different durations of adjuvant trastuzumab in early breast cancer, from the English NHS payer perspective. PloS one.
• Cubí‐Mollá P, Jofre‐Bonet M, & Serra-Sastre V. (2017). Adaptation to health states: Sick yet better off? Health Economics.
• Doherty, C., Stavropoulou, C., Saunders, M.N.K. & Brown, T. (2017). The consent process: Enabling or disabling patients’ active participation? Health, 21(2): 205–222.
• Glycopantis, D. & Stavropoulou, C. (2017) An agency relationship under general conditions of uncertainty: a game theory application to the doctor–patient interaction. Economic Theory Bulletin.
• Kyratsis, Y., Atun, R., Phillips, N., Tracey, P. and George, G. (2017). Healthcare in Transition: Professional Identity Work in the Context of Shifting Institutional Logics. Academy of Management Journal, 60(2), pp. 610–641. doi:10.5465/amj.2013.0684.
• Laudicella, M., Martin, S., Li Donni, P., & Smith, P.C. (2017) Do reduced hospital mortality rates lead to increased utilization of inpatient emergency care? A population-based cohort study. Health Services Research.
• Parmar, D., Leone, T., Coast, E., Murray, S.F., Hukin, E. & Vwalika, B. (2017). Cost of abortions in Zambia: A comparison of safe abortion and post abortion care. Global Public Health, 12(2): 236–49.
• Walsh, B., Laudicella, M. (2017) Disparities in cancer care and costs at the end of life: evidence from England’s National Health Service. Health Affairs.
• Williams, G.A., Parmar, D., Dkhimi, F., Asante, F., Arhinful, D. and Mladovsky, P. (2017). Equitable access to health insurance for socially excluded children? The case of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana. Social Science and Medicine, 186: 10–19.

• Asaria M, Ali S, Doran T, Ferguson B, Fleetcroft R, Goddard M, Goldblatt P, Laudicella M, Raine R, & Cookson R. (2016). How a Universal Health System Reduces Inequalities: Lessons from England. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
• Bradley, S., McCourt, C., Rayment, J. & Parmar, D. (2016). Disrespectful intrapartum care during facility-based delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis of women's perceptions and experiences. Social Science and Medicine, 169, 157-170.
• Castro-Sánchez, E., Kyratsis, Y., Iwami, M., Rawson, T.M. and Holmes, A.H. (2016). Serious electronic games as behavioural change interventions in healthcare-associated infections and infection prevention and control: A scoping review of the literature and future directions. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 5(1). doi:10.1186/s13756-016-0137-0
• Costa-Font, J. & Parmar, D. (2016). Political agency and public healthcare: Evidence from India. WIDER Working Paper, 125/2016.
• Fenny, A.P., Asante, F.A., Arhinful, D.K., Kusi, A., Parmar, D. & Williams, G. (2016). Who uses outpatient healthcare services under Ghana's health protection scheme and why?. BMC Health Services Research, 16
• French, C. & Stavropoulou, C. (2016). Specialist nurses’ perceptions of inviting patients to participate in clinical research studies: a qualitative descriptive study of barriers and facilitators. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 16(1), 1–12.
• Galizzi, M.M., Miraldo, M. & Stavropoulou, C. (2016). In Sickness but Not in Wealth: Field Evidence on Patients' Risk Preferences in Financial and Health Domains. Medical Decision Making, 36(4), 503–517.
• Galizzi, M.M., Miraldo, M., Stavropoulou, C. & van der Pol, M. (2016). Doctor–patient differences in risk and time preferences: A field experiment. Journal of Health Economics, 50, 171–182
• Kyratsis, Y., Armit, K., Zyada, A. and Lees, P. (2016). Medical leadership and management in the United Kingdom. Australasian Psychiatry, 24(3), pp. 240–242. doi:10.1177/1039856216635909
• Laliotis, I., Ioannidis, J.P.A. & Stavropoulou, C. (2016). Total and cause-specific mortality before and after the onset of the Greek economic crisis: an interrupted time-series analysis. The Lancet Public Health, 1(2), e56–e65.
• Laudicella M, Walsh B, Burns E, & Smith PC. (2016). Cost of care for cancer patients in England: Evidence from population-based patient-level data. British Journal of Cancer, 114, 1286-1292.
• Laudicella M., Walsh B., Munasinghe A., & Faiz O. (2016). Impact of laparoscopic versus open surgery on hospital costs for colon cancer: a population-based retrospective cohort study. BMJ-Open 6, e012977.
• Leone, T, Coast, E, Parmar, D, & Vwalika, B. (2016). The individual level cost of pregnancy termination in Zambia: a comparison of safe and unsafe abortion. Health Policy and Planning, 31(7), 825-833.
• McKeown, E., Weir, H., Berridge, E.J., Ellis, L. and Kyratsis, Y. (2016). Art engagement and mental health: Experiences of service users of a community-based arts programme at Tate Modern, London. Public Health, 130, pp. 29–35. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2015.09.009
• Parmar, D., Stavropoulou, C. & Ioannidis, J.P. (2016). Health outcomes during the 2008 financial crisis in Europe: systematic literature review. BMJ, 354, i4588.
• Stavropoulou, C., Saunders, M.N. & Doherty, C. (2016). Consent to treatment in the UK: time for practice to reflect the law. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, vol 21, 3: 143-144.

• Banal-Estañol, A., Jofre-Bonet, M. & Lawson, C. (2015). The double-edged sword of industry collaboration: Evidence from engineering academics in the UK. Research Policy, 44(6), 1160–1175.
• Cookson R, Asaria M, Ali S, Ferguson B, Fleetcroft R, Goddard M, Goldblatt, P, Laudicella, M & Raine, R. (2015). OP44 A framework for monitoring NHS equity performance – small area analysis of national administrative data from 2004/5 to 2011/12. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 69 (Suppl 1): A28–A28.
• Doherty, C., Stavropoulou, C. and Dickinson, L. (2015). Patients’ willingness to complete written incident report forms in one UK tertiary cancer hospital. Clinical Risk, 21(5), 77-82.
• Doiron, D., Fiebig., D, Johar M., and Suziedelyte A. (2015) Does self-assessed health measure health? Applied Economics, 47(2), 180-194.
• Giorgakoudi K, Gubbins S, Ward J, Juleff N, Zhang Z & Schley D (2015). Using mathematical modelling to explore hypotheses about the role of bovine epithelium structure in foot-and- mouth disease virus-induced cell lysis. PLoS ONE 10(10)
• Hansen, S., Zingg, W., Ahmad, R., Kyratsis, Y., Behnke, M., Schwab, F., Pittet, D., Gastmeier, P., Sax, H., Grundmann, H., van Benthem, B., van der Kooi, T., Dettenkofer, M., Martin, M., Richet, H., Szilágyi, E., O Központ, E., Heczko, P.B., Holmes, A., Allegranzi, B., Magiorakos, A., Cookson, B. and Wu, A.W. (2015). Organization of infection control in European hospitals. Journal of Hospital Infection, 91(4), pp. 338–345. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2015.07.011.
• Hansen, S., Schwab, F., Gastmeier, P., Pittet, D., Zingg, W., Sax, H., Gastmeier, P., Hansen, S., Grundmann, H., van Benthem, B., van der Kooi, T., Dettenkofer, M., Martin, M., Richet, H., Szilágyi, E., Központ, O.E., Heczko, P.B., Holmes, A., Kyratsis, Y., Ahmad, R., Allegranzi, B., Magiorakos, A., Cookson, B. and Wu, A.W. (2015). Provision and consumption of alcohol-based hand rubs in European hospitals. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 21(12), pp. 1047–1051. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2015.09.019.
• Harding-Esch, E., Jofre-Bonet, M., Dhanjal, J.K., Burr, S., Edwards, T., Holland, M., Sillah, A., West, S., Lietman, T., Keenan, J., Mabey, D. & Bailey, R. (2015). Costs of Testing for Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis Infection compared to Mass Drug Administration for Trachoma in The Gambia: Application of results from the PRET Study. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(4).
• Johnston, D. W., Lordan, G., Shields, M. A., & Suziedelyte, A. (2015). Education and health knowledge: Evidence from UK compulsory schooling reform. Social Science & Medicine, 127, 92-100
• Laverty AL, Laudicella M, Smith PC, & Millett C. (2015). Impact of ‘high-profile’ public reporting on utilization and quality of maternity care in England: a difference-in-difference analysis, Journal of Health Services Research Policy, 20, 100-108.
• Parmar D, Leone T, Coast E, Murray S.F., Hukin E. & Vwalika B. (2015). Cost of abortions in Zambia: A comparison of safe abortion and post abortion care. Global Public Health, 1-14.
• Savadogo G, Souares A, Sie A, Parmar D, Bibeau G. & Sauerborn R. (2015). Using a community-based definition of poverty for targeting poor households for premium subsidies in the context of a community health insurance in Burkina Faso. BMC Public Health, 15, 84.
• Stavropoulou, C., Doherty, C. & Tosey, P. (2015) How effective are incident reporting systems for improving patient safety? A systematic literature review. Milbank Quarterly, 93 (4), 826-866.
• Stavropoulou, C. & Valletti, T. (2015). Compulsory licensing and access to drugs. European Journal of Health Economics, 16(1), 83-94.
• Suziedelyte, A. (2015). Media and human capital development: Can video game playing make you smarter?. Economic Inquiry, 53(2), 1140-1155.
• Suziedelyte A. (2015). The effects of old and new media on children's weight. Applied Economics, 47(10), 1008-1018.
• Suziedelyte, A., & Zhu, A. (2015). Does early schooling narrow outcome gaps for advantaged and disadvantaged children?. Economics of Education Review, 45, 76-88.

• Doiron, D., Fiebig, D. G., & Suziedelyte, A. (2014). Hips and hearts: The variation in incentive effects of insurance across hospital procedures. Journal of health economics, 37, 81-97.
• Carrera PM & Laudicella M (2014). Competitive healthcare and the elderly: Handle with care. Maturitas 2014; 78, 151-152.
• Jofre-Bonet, M. & Pesendorfer, M. (2014). Optimal sequential auctions. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 33(1), 61-71
• Kyratsis, Y., Ahmad, R., Hatzaras, K., Iwami, M. and Holmes, A. (2014). Making sense of evidence in management decisions: the role of research-based knowledge on innovation adoption and implementation in health care. Health Services and Delivery Research, 2(6), pp. 1–192. doi:10.3310/hsdr02060
• Martin, M., Zingg, W., Knoll, E., Wilson, C., Dettenkofer, M., Pittet, D., Sax, H., Gastmeier, P., Hansen, S., Grundmann, H., van Benthem, B., van der Kooi, T., Richet, H., Szilágyi, E., Heczko, P.B., Holmes, A., Kyratsis, Y., Ahmad, R., Allegranzi, B., Magiorakos, A.P., Cookson, B. and Wu, A.W. (2014). National European guidelines for the prevention of Clostridium difficile infection: A systematic qualitative review. Journal of Hospital Infection, 87(4), pp. 212–219. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2014.05.002.
• Parmar, D., De Allegri, M., Savadogo, G. & Sauerborn, R. (2014). Do community-based health insurance schemes fulfil the promise of equity? A study from Burkina Faso. Health Policy and Planning, 29(1), 76-84.
• Parmar, D., Williams, G., Dkhimi, F., Ndiaye, A., Asante, F.A., Arhinful, D.K. & Mladovsky, P. (2014). Enrolment of older people in social health protection programs in West Africa - Does social exclusion play a part? Social Science and Medicine, 119, 36-44.

• Laudicella, M. The price of success: saving the life of patients or reducing their emergency admissions?  Monitor, Skipton house, London, January 2016
• Laudicella, M. The price of success: saving the life of patients or reducing their emergency admissions?  Centre for Health Economics, University of York, January 2016
• Jofre-Bonet, M The Blow of Domestic Violence on Children's Health Outcomes (joint with Victoria Serra-Sastre & Melcior Rosselló-Roig). Kings College London Health Economics Seminar Series, March 2016

• Jofre-Bonet, M. What is health economics? Beyond cost-effectiveness. London School of Economics Executive HEPM MSc, December 2015
• Jofre-Bonet, M. Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence from English Adoptees. Royal Economic Society, Manchester. March 2015
• Jofre-Bonet, Health Economics Study Group Conference. Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence from English Adoptees. January 2015
• Jofre-Bonet, M. Why the new government’s plans to save the NHS won’t be enough: https://theconversation.com/why-the-new-governments-plans-to-save-the-nhs-wont-be-enough-41542 cited in The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/13/society-briefing-mental-health-alcohol-consumption-new-politics
• Laudicella, M. International Health Economics Association, Milan, Italy. July 2015
• Laudicella, M. NCIN Cancer Outcomes Conference, Belfast, UK. June 2015
• Parmar, D. Do user fee exemption policies for maternal health services work? Studying the impact of Free Delivery and Caesarean Policy in Senegal. Oxford International Health Conference, Oxford. June 2015
• Stavropoulou, C. How effective are incident reporting systems for improving patient safety. European Health Policy Group, Spring Meeting, April 2015
• Stavropoulou, C. The consent form: enabling or disabling patients’ active involvement? ISQua’s 32nd International Conference, Doha, Qatar. October 2015

• Laudicella, M. NCIN Cancer Outcomes Conference, Birmingham, UK. June 2014
• Laudicella, M. International Health Economics Association, Sydney, Australia. July 2014
• Parmar, D. Enrolment of older people in social health protection programs – does social exclusion play a part? Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Cape Town, South Africa. September 2014.
• Parmar, D. Health system costs of safe abortion and post abortion care from unsafe induced abortions in Zambia. Third International Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA), Nairobi, Kenya. March 2014
• Serra-Sastre, V. Better health in times of economic hardship? HESG Winter Conference, Sheffield University. January 2014
• Serra-Sastre, V. Better health in times of economic hardship? Academic Unit of Health Economics. University of Leeds. March 2014
• Serra-Sastre, V. Adaptation to health states: sicker but better off? Health Economics Research Centre. University of Oxford. February 2014
• Serra-Sastre, V. Better health in times of economic hardship? City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) Seminar. City University London. July 2014