City Health Economics Centre
The City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) aims to develop and apply new quantitative research methods to inform policies in health and health care.
About the centre
CHEC is collaboration between health economists based in the Department of Economics and the School of Health Sciences.
Research at CHEC has a strong basis in the discipline of economics and is informed by theoretical and empirical developments in microeconomics and econometrics applied to health and health care. CHEC has well established links with the Office of Health Economics (OHE) in terms of joint grant applications, research collaborations and enterprise opportunities.
CHEC organises a monthly seminar series where staff members based at City, University of London and researchers from other academic and non-academic organisationsfrom inside and outside City, University of London present their latest research. In addition CHEC organises the seminars of the London Health Economics Group (LHEG), a research forum for health economists across London to present and discuss works in progress and ideas.
Researchers and academic staff at CHEC have produced high quality research work on a wide range of health economics topics. We have received research grants from MacMillan Cancer Support, The Health Foundation and NIHR.
Our current research programme includes the following main themes:
- Analysis of the National Health Service in England
- The impact of the recession on health outcomes and wellbeing
- Health outcomes measurement and valuation.
- Adaptation to health states
- Inequalities in childhood vaccination and childhood obesity
- Health technology adoption and diffusion
- Pharmaceutical R&D and competition.
- Economic evaluation of cancer treatments
- Health behaviours and lifestyle decision making
- Domestic violence and health outcomes
- Maternal working patterns and children’s wellbeing
- Willingness to Pay for health insurance schemes in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)
- Effects of health care reforms in developed and LMICs
- Eating disorders, mental and labour outcome
Featured profile
Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet
People
Members
Dr Victoria Serra-Sastre, Director
Senior 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.
Dr Kyriaki Giorgakoudi
Senior Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences
Research interests:
- Economic evaluation
- Mathematical modelling
- Cancer
- Infectious diseases
Prof. Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Associate Director of Research
Office of Health Economics and Department of Economics, City, University of London
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.
Dr Ioannis Laliotis
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
- Medical workforce
- Mortality and recessions
- Gender pay gap in the health care sector
- Structure of wages
Dr Edward Pinchbeck, LHEG organiser
Department of Economics
Research interests:
- applied microeconomics
- health economics & NHS policy
- urban, housing and spatial economics
- behavioural economics
Dr Charitini Stavropoulou
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.
Dr Agne Suziedelyte
Department of Economics
Research interests:
- ICT and media
- mental health
- vaccinations
- self reported health
PhD Students
Current
- 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
Completed
- 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.
Honorary Members and Affiliates
Prof. John Appleby
Director of Research and Chief Economist, Nuffield Trust
Prof. John Cairns
Professor Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Prof. Graham Cookson
Chief Executive, Office of Health Economics
Dr Patricia Cubi-Molla
Senior Principal Economist, Office of Health Economics
Prof. Nancy Devlin
Chair In Health Economics, University of Melbourne
Prof. Michael Drummond
Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Dr Mauro Laudicella
Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz
Visting Fellow, Office of Health Economics
Research interests:
- pharmaceutical R&D
- pharmaceutical expenditure forecasting
- the economics of biosimilars
- antibiotics.
Prof. David Parkin
Senior Principal Economist, Office of Health Economics
Prof. Lotte Steuten
Head of Consulting and Vice President, Office of Health Economics
Events
CHEC Workshops
The CHEC will run a workshop on issues around NHS workforce, exploring the current context and presenting the evidence on determinants of the labour market in the sector. The workshop will be held on the 30th April 2020. There is no fee to attend but registration is required. Registration details will follow.
Health Economists’s Study Group (HESG)
The CHEC organised the HESG Winter 2018 conference at City, University of London 10th-12th January 2018.
CHEC Seminars
Upcoming seminars
| Date | Presenters |
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| 12 May 2020 |
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| 21 April 2020 |
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| 24 March 2020 |
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Past seminars
| Date | Presenters |
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| 10 December 2019 |
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| 3 December 2019 |
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| 8 October 2019 |
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| 11 June 2019 |
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| 14 May 2019 |
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| 12 February 2019 |
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| 8 January 2019 |
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| 16 October 2018 |
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| 13 June 2017 |
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| 9 May 2017 |
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| 18 April 2017 |
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| 14 March 2017 |
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| 14 February 2017 |
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| 17 January 2017 |
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| 13 December 2016 |
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| 15 November 2016 |
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| 11 October 2016 |
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| 14 June 2016 |
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| 10 May 2016 |
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| 12 April 2016 |
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| 8 March 2016 |
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| 9 February 2016 |
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London Health Economics Group
Past events
| Date | Host institution | Presenters |
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| 28 November 2019 | City University of London |
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| 11 April 2019 | NHS Improvement |
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| 29 November 2018 | Imperial College Business School |
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| 26 April 2018 | University College London |
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| 9 November 2017 | LSE |
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| 9 March 2017 (5-7pm) | IFS (basement) |
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| 17 November 2016 (5-7pm) | The Office of Health Economics |
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| 9 June 2016 | King's College London |
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| 10 March 2016 | Imperial College London |
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| 10 November 2015 | LSHTM |
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| November 2014 | City University London |
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| June 2014 | King's College London |
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| March 2014 | University College London |
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| November 2013 | LSE Health & Social Care |
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| February 2012 | LSHTM |
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| November 2011 | City University London |
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| November 2010 | City University London |
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| May 2010 | Imperial College |
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| March 2010 | City University London |
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| October 2009 | Imperial College |
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Featured profile
Dr Victoria Serra-Sastre