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York is home to one of the world's most significant clusters of health economics experts.
These specialists work across multiple University of York departments, such as the Department of Economics and Related Studies, Centre for Health Economics, and York Health Economics Consortium.
Our team boasts strong global connections and reputation, with recent World Bank bibliometrics ranking York as the sole UK university in the global top ten for health economics, alongside prestigious institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley. Both leading international journals in this field (Health Economics and Journal of Health Economics) have been edited from York.
Our research encompasses diverse areas including:
Evaluating health and healthcare policies through economic lenses
Assessing health technologies economically
Supporting global health decision-making processes
Guiding research and development strategies, priorities, and methodologies
Examining distributional effects and inequalities in healthcare access
Advancing theoretical and practical understanding of healthcare system economics
Analyzing extensive, complex datasets including administrative and linked records