The aim of the Health Economics and Applied Statistics (HEAS) research theme is to develop and encourage the application of appropriate economic and statistical methods to improve health, wellbeing and health and social care research.  More generally, our aims are to:

• Research economic approaches to health and social care at standards of international excellence
• Develop and apply economic techniques to improve health and social care and population health and wellbeing
• Make available to our partners a body of expertise in health economis
• Build and sustain capacity in the economics of health

Leads: Professor Peter McMeekin, Professor Joanne Gray, Associate Professor Angela Bate

Our research spans the field of health economics, covering the five major themes of: economic evaluation, priority setting, policy evaluation, methodological developments within health economics such as the use of linked data in evaluation and understanding transformation and technical change in healthcare. We use a variety of economic and statistics methods to explore cost effectiveness, efficiency, equity and return on investment across the health and social care arena.