CHE welcomes two Research Fellows

Posted on Monday 2 November 2026

The Centre for Health Economics (CHE) is delighted to welcome Joe Wise and Jinhyun Kim as Research Fellows, contributing to our research in health economics and economic evaluation.

Joe Wise recently joined CHE as a Research Fellow in Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment. He works particularly on the Support2Work and Economic Methods of Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions Policy Research Unit (EEPRU) projects, having recently completed an MSc in Health Economics at the University of York.

Joe completed his master's dissertation at CHE, investigating latent classifications of mental health development patterns in children and their subsequent impact on educational attainment. His work was supervised by Shuye Yu, Rowena Jacobs and Simon Walker.

Jinhyun Kim joined CHE in 2025 as a Research Trainee and has recently progressed to a Research Fellow position. Before joining CHE, he completed an MSc in Health Economics at the University of York. Earlier in his career, he worked as a medical doctor in South Korea. He is currently undertaking a PhD in Health Economics at the University of York.

As a Research Trainee, Jinhyun worked on the Research and Economic Analysis for the Long-term (REAL) Supply Unit project, examining the impact of hospital capital expenditure on regional treatable mortality in England to help inform NHS investment decisions.

In his new role as a Research Fellow, Jinhyun will also contribute to the EEPRU project. He is conducting feasibility studies to estimate the effects of healthcare expenditure on regional mortality in the post-COVID years, using refined methods tailored to recent NHS allocation regimes.

He also contributes to the Support2Work project, which evaluates the impact and cost-effectiveness of Employment Advisers embedded within NHS Talking Therapies. As part of this study, he works on Work Package 4, developing an economic model to bring together evidence and assess the overall health and economic value for money.

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