Steve Parrott
Reader in Health Economics
Profile
Biography
Steve has worked as a health economist in the Department of Health Sciences, and previously the Centre for Health Economics, since 1995. He currently heads the economics of mental health and addiction research and has undertaken many economic evaluations of smoking cessation and alcohol interventions and published extensively in the addiction field.
Qualifications
- BSc Economics
- MSc Health Economics
Departmental roles
- Lead for Economics of Addiction and Mental Health, Mental Health and Addiction Team
Research
Overview
Steve's research interests are in health economics, the economic evaluation of addiction and alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs.
Projects
- Helping people cope with temptations to smoke to reduce relapse
- ADVANCE: Advancing theory and treatment approaches for males in substance misuse treatment who perpetrate intimate partner violence
- Start2Quit: Smoking cessation using taster sessions
- Quadrupling inhaled steroid to prevent asthma
- A randomised trial of nicotine patch preloading for smoking cessation
- (with Mental Health team)
- SCIMITAR (with Mental Health team)
- BINGO - Improving the effectiveness and reach of NHS support for smoking cessation in pregnancy
- Passive Smoking - new approaches to cessation service delivery
- UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS)
Watch Steve talk about the economics of tobacco on a recent clip from the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies
- SNAP - The Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy Trial
- CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber : Mental Health and Comorbidity Theme
- Children Learning About Second-hand Smoke (CLASS II): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
- Tobacco cessation within TB programmes: A 'real world' solution for countries with dual burden of disease
- A multi component intervention to reduce home-exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy and postnatal period
Research group(s)
Available PhD research projects
- Alcohol Interventions and Mental Health Populations
- Economic Evaluation and Addiction
Supervision
Steve is keen to supervise PhDs in the following areas: effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of smoking, drinking and illicit drug interventions.
Teaching
Postgraduate
- Health Economics Module
