Marc Suhrcke
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Biography

Marc Suhrcke is a Professor of Global Health Economics at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE). He joined CHE in June 2014. From 2008 to 2014 he was Professor for Public Health Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, where he was also part of the UKCRC funded Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), and of the Department of Health-funded Policy Research Unit on Behaviour and Health (BHRU). Prior to UEA he held positions with the World Health Organization, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, the University of Hamburg, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), the European Commission (Brussels), and the Hamburg Institute for International Economics.

He holds a graduate degree in Economics from the University of Trier (Germany), a postgraduate degree in International Economic Relations from the University of Konstanz (Germany), and PhD in Economics from Hamburg University.

The main part of his research revolves around a range of economic and econometric aspects of public health in low and middle income countries, which includes the micro and macroeconomic consequences of (ill-)health, the economic evaluation of public health interventions, the measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in - and determinants of - health, and empirical policy impact evaluation. His work has been funded by the World Bank, WHO, the European Commission, DFID, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the NIHR, the MRC, the ESRC and others.

For a full list of publications by Marc Suhrcke, please see his Google Scholar page here: www.scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=PjkKsoUAAAAJ&hl=en

Research

Overview

Micro- and macro-economic consequences of (ill-) health
Socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviours
Policy impact evaluation
Economic evaluation of public health interventions
Low and middle income countries

Research group(s)

Global Health

Grants

Current and recent grants:

Co-PI, War and Peace: The Health and Health System Consequences of Conflict in Colombia, MRC Joint Health Systems Research Initiative
PI, NIHR Global Health Econometrics and Economics Group, NIHR, 2017-2020
PI, Evaluating the role of fiscal policy in improving diets and preventing chronic disease in Chile: impact evaluation and modelling, Newton Fund, MRC, CONICYT, 2016-2018
Co-PI, Addressing critical barriers to control of non-communicable disease (NCD) in low, middle and high income countries, ESRC, 2014-2015
Co-PI, Opportunities within the school environment to shift the distribution of activity intensity in adolescents. Department of Health - Policy Research Programme, 2014-2017
Co-PI, CAPITAL4HEALTH – Capabilities for active lifestyle: An interactive knowledge-to-action research network for health promotion, Federal Ministry of Research, Germany, 2015-2017
Co-PI, Evaluation of ‘Walking for Health’, MacMillan & Ramblers, 2013-2015
PI, Economic consequences of non-communicable diseases and risk factors in Middle East and North Africa, World Bank, 2013
Co-PI, Cost effectiveness and cost benefits of rehabilitation services - a systematic overview, WHO, 2013-2014
Co-PI, Sport4Health, Get Healthy Get Into Sport - Evaluation of methods to recruit inactive people into sport, Sport England, 2013-2016
Co-PI, Characterising patterns and changes in physical activity in older people and their determinants and consequences, Medical Research Council, 2013-2016
Co-PI, A randomised controlled trial to test the clinical and cost-effectiveness of primary care referral to a commercial weight loss provider, Medical Research Council - National Prevention Research Initiative Phase IV, 2012-2015
Co-PI, Establishing a Healthy Growth Trajectory from Birth: The Baby Milk Trial, Medical Research Council - National Prevention Research Initiative Phase IV, 2012-2015
Co-PI, The Review of Cost-Benefit Models and Their Applicability to Sport, Sport England, 2012
Co-PI, Evaluating the impact of structural policies on health, health behaviours and health inequalities, European Commission, 7th Framework Programme, 2012-2014
Copenhagen Consensus, Perspectives Paper on Chronic Diseases
Co-PI, The health benefits of household water supplies in South Africa, DFID, 2012-2013
PI, Chair - Economics Task Group, European Review of Social Determinants of Health, WHO Europe, 2011-2012
Co-PI, The impact of recession on communicable diseases (Analytical work), European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC)
Co-PI, Policy Research Unit - Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU), Department of Health, 2011-2015
Co-PI, ADDITION trial: effects of diabetes treatment on cardiovascular events at 5 years, NIHR HTA
PI, European Commission - Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, Patterns and determinants of alcohol consumption in adolescents, 01/2011-04/2012
PI, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and TB, Cost-effectiveness of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm), 06-12/2010
PI, Costing evaluation of Natural England’s Walking for Health-Schemes, 01-12/2011
PI, Scoping exercise on the impact of the economic crisis on communicable diseases, European Centre for Disease Control, 2009
Co-PI, Development and evaluation of very brief interventions to increase physical activity in primary care, NIHR Programme Grant, 2010-2014
Co-PI, Addressing the social and economic determinants of obesity, European Commission (FP 6), 2007-2010
Background paper on the Impact of the Recession on health, for ECHAA Inaugural conference in London, 28/04/2009, European Centre for Health Assets and Architecture, 2009
PI, Research note on Economic Crisis and Health in the European Union, for the EC-funded European Observatory on the Social Situation and Demography, 2009
PI, Economics of NCDs in China, World Bank, 2008-2010
Contribution to Marmot Review, Health Inequalities Strategy for England post-2010; Department of Health, England, 2009
PI, The economic rationale for public policy to tackle NCDs in South Asia, World Bank
PI, Measurement of socioeconomic inequalities and determinants of health, WHO Venice Office, 2008-2009
PI, Health & economic development in the Middle East & North Africa, WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2009-2010
PI, Does health determine educational outcomes in high-income countries?, Health Scotland, 2008-2009
Economic evaluation of economic & social policy interventions for health, WHO, 2008-2010
PI, Assessing the macroeconomic consequences of cardiovascular disease in five developing countries, IC Health, 2008-09
PI, Health and wealth in Europe, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2008
PI, Methodologies for the microeconomic assessment of adult ill-health in low- and middle-income countries, World Bank, 2007-08

Supervision

Current PhD students:

Girmaye Dinsa (The socioeconomic inequalities in and determinants of obesity in developing countries)
Adam Martin (Socioeconomic determinants and consequences of active travel)
Till Seuring (The economics of diabetes in low and middle income countries)
Darren Burns (The role of foreign direct investment in health in low and middle income countries)
Batsirai Majuru (Unreliable water supplies and household coping strategies in South Africa)

External activities

Memberships

Member, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science, University of East Anglia - since 2013
Health economics lead, Department of Health-funded Behaviour and Health Research Unit (collaboration between Cambridge University and UEA) - 2011-2014
Co-Chair Economics Task Group, WHO European Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide in the WHO European Region - 2011-2013
Scientific Advisory Council of the International Obesity Taskforce - Since 2010
WHO Scientific Reference Group Health Equity - 2009-2012
NICE Programme Development Group – prevention of pre-diabetes in adults - 2009-2011
OECD expert group on The Economics of Prevention - 2008-2009
Health Economics lead, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), and UKCRC-funded collaboration of Cambridge University and UEA - 2008-2014
Member of Marmot Review team – Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010 - 2009
Institute of Medicine, working group on preventing CVD in developing countries - 2009

Editorial duties

Co-editor, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Health Economics – Section on the Economics of Public Health 2011-2013

Centre for Health Economics

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