Dr Thomas Mason

Senior Lecturer in Health Economics

Profile

In late 2022, I joined the Health Economics at Lancaster group as a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics.

My research examines the financing and organisation of health care, the health care workforce, the economics of addiction, the management of chronic diseases, and the social determinants of health. It typically involves the development and application of micro-econometric methods and other quantitative methods used in broader health research and epidemiology. I am interested in the unintended consequences of changes in economic, health and social policy (such as the unanticipated equity effects).

I have research currently funded by the NIHR into: (i) the links between economic policy and population health, (ii) the quantitative data used by local public health decision makers.

I am also involved in consultancy projects evaluating the N-ROL Stoke rehabilitation programme in partnership with ELHT funded via the SBRI programme.