Career Details

Tom obtained an undergraduate degree in Economics and Politics and an MSc in Economics from the University of Manchester in 2010. Tom joined the Manchester Centre for Health Economics as a Research Associate and was promoted to Research Fellow. He worked on various projects including:

• the development of methods for health care workforce planning

• development of age-period-cohort models to analyse population ageing

• evaluations of pay-for-performance schemes in health care

• policy evaluations for government on the economics of addiction

• the development of resource allocation formulae in health care

• the impact of health system change on health inequalities

• health system reforms including the 2012 Health and Social Care act,

• evaluations of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme

• the measurement of sexual orientiation in surveys

• the relationship between informal and formal care

• assessment of community-based optometry services

• assessment of geographical differences in the epidemiology diabetes

• evaluation of domestic violence interventions

• quality improvement schemes of patient safety in Tracheostomy care

His teaching activity at Manchester included teaching Econometrics to BSc Economics students and Health Economics to MSc Economics students. His PhD supervision included research into the economics of psoriasis.

He has worked as a Senior Research Analyst in private sector health economics consultancies producing research for government agencies, third sector and pharmaceutical clients.

He joined Lancaster University as a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics in September 2022.

His current research includes:

• analysis of the impacts of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme on health inequalities

• evaluation of the NROL Stroke Rehabilitation pathway

• analysis of how English local authorities allocated the public health grant across prescribed and non-prescribed programmes (2013–2019)

• evaluation of the impacts of Community Wealth Building on population health and economic outcomes
• the use of quasi-experimental methods in public health research

Current Teaching

DHR409 Applied Health Economics (Module convenor)

Research Overview

Tom's research examines the financing and organisation of health care, the health care workforce, the economics of addiction, 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.

Tom's research has examined the intended and unintended consequences of the introduction of reforms to the organisation, financing and delivery of health services. This has included distributional effects across population characteristics such as deprivation and need. He is interested in the links between economic policy and public health.