For PhD enquiries please contact Sarah Crust
There are opportunities to study for a PhD based in the Centre for Health Economics. Being located in the Centre will provide you with the opportunity to interact with staff and students working in your area of research interest.
PhD students are located in CHE but registered within a teaching department, usually the Department of Economics and Related Studies or the Department of Health Sciences. Details of how to apply can be found on their webpages.
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Occasionally we advertise studentship opportunities on our news pages. The CHE studentship is usually advertised around February/March.
You may want to visit the Student Services website for further information before applying.
The MSc in Health Economics has been running since 1978 and the course has been completed by over 750 British and overseas students. It provides a comprehensive training in the theory and practice of Health Economics and gives students the experience and skills needed for research and health service decision-making. Graduates work in government departments, research units, universities, national health services and health care organisations, and the pharmaceutical industry.
For more information, visit the Department of Economics and Related Studies.
The York distance learning programmes in Health Economics for Health Care Professionals offer students the opportunity to study for University-accredited qualifications at the postgraduate level. The programmes are designed to allow students to study whilst continuing in their careers, and offer the flexibility to spread study over a period of years to match professional and personal circumstances.
For more information, visit the Distance Learning Programmes in Health Economics site.
The Alan Williams Fellowships scheme was first launched in 2006 as a tribute to Professor Alan Williams and to enable health economists from anywhere in the world to spend time at the Centre for Health Economics in York, UK. This has recently been replaced by the CHE Visiting Fellowships.
Researchers wishing to visit CHE are invited to apply and the fellowship award is intended as a contribution towards living and travel expenses associated with the visit. The call for applications is placed on the website during March and April annually.
In 2022, Fernando Alarid Escudero, Ricarda Milstein and Hugo Pedder were awarded Fellowships and will visit CHE during 2022/23.
Fernando is from the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, Mexico and his reserch project will focus on using real-world data for evidence synthesis, personalised considerations, and causal inference using individual-level DES modeling techniques.
Ricarda is from the University of Hamburg, Germany and her research project will be to Systematically review policies and their effects to attract GPs to, and retain them in underserved areas in eight OECD countries.
Hugo is from the University of Bristol, UK and his research project is to demonstrate the ability of dose-response Model-Based Network Meta-Analysis to strengthen cost-effectiveness decisions in the presence of sparse relative effectiveness evidence.
Past fellows
Rachel Meacock 2019
Giancarlo Buitrago Gutierrez 2018
Ankur Pandya 2018
Claire de Oliveira, October-December 2017
John Tayu Lee, 2016/2017
Rohan Sweeney, February-May 2016
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Hossein Afzali, April-June 2015
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Francesca Zantomio, November 2014-January 2015
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Mikael Svensson, April-June 2014
Peter Sivey, April-June 2014
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Line Kongstad, November 2012-February 2013
Cinzia di Novi, November 2011-April 2012
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Rena Conti, May-June 2009
Anirban Basu, April-June 2008
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Ismo Linnosmaa, Feb-July 2008
Matteo Galizzi, 2007 & 2008
Giuliana de Luca, August-December 2007
Aleksandra Torbica, June-September 2007
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Victor Zarate, January-April 2007
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