News

• Professor Bruce Hollingsworth Leads a A$2.8 Million grant to improve health workforce planning in Australia.
• Professor Céu Mateus elected President of European Health Economics Association (EuHEA) in July 2024.
• Dr Luis Filipe and his team, led by Professor Carol Holland, are working on a project to evaluate smart medication technology. The project is funded with £1.2 million by the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB).
• Professor Céu Mateus joined BBC programme "The Evidence" to explore the science of salt.
• Professor Céu Mateus is part of a £1.2M project to improve workplace support for people with dementia.

Publications (column 1)

• Martínez-Jiménez, M., Hollingsworth, B., & Zucchelli, E. (2024). Socioeconomic deprivation, health and healthcare utilisation among millennials. Social Science & Medicine, 351, 116961.
• El-Enbaby, H., Hollingsworth, B., Maystadt, J. F., & Singhal, S. (2024). Cash transfers and mental health in Egypt. Economics & Human Biology, 54, 101396.
• Simpson, A., Filipe, L., Benedetto, V., & Hill, J. (2024). The impacts of housing conditions on physical and mental health: a critical mini-review informed by a rapid conversion of evidence from Alidoust and Huang (2021). Frontiers in Environmental Health, 3, 1352580.
• Chipako, I., Singhal, S., & Hollingsworth, B. (2024). Impact of sexual and reproductive health interventions among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review. Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 5, 1344135.
• Shawa, K. C., Hollingsworth, B., & Zucchelli, E. (2024). A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of ill health and health shocks on labour supply. Systematic Reviews, 13(1), 52.
• Srivastava, P., Trinh, T. A., Hallam, K. T., Karimi, L., & Hollingsworth, B. (2024). The links between parental smoking and childhood obesity: data of the longitudinal study of Australian children. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 68.
• Singhal, S., & Tarp, F. (2024). Commodity price volatility and the psychological well‐being of farmers. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Publications (column 2)

• McDermott, E., Eastham, R., Hughes, E., Johnson, K., Davis, S., Pryjmachuk, S., ... & Jenzen, O. (2024). “What works” to support LGBTQ+ young people's mental health: An intersectional youth rights approach. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 54(2), 108-120.
• Ma, W., Timóteo, A., Ribeiro, V., Mateus, C., & Perelman, J. (2024). Contribution of high-technology procedures to public healthcare expenditures: The case of ischemic heart disease in Portugal, 2002–2015. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 1-19.
• Abdel Hadi, H., Eltayeb, F., Al Balushi, S., Daghfal, J., Ahmed, F., & Mateus, C. (2024). Evaluation of Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Implementation, Process, Impact, and Outcomes, Review of Systematic Reviews. Antibiotics, 13(3), 253.
• Antoniou, M., Mateus, C., Hollingsworth, B., & Titman, A. (2024). A systematic review of methodologies used in models of the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Pharmacoeconomics, 42(1), 19-40.
• Vera-Toscano, E., Shucksmith, M., Brown, D. L., & Brown, H. (2024). The rural–urban poverty gap in England after the 2008 financial crisis: Exploring the effects of budgetary cuts and welfare reforms. Regional Studies, 58(6), 1264-1281.
• Brown, H., Albani, V., Munford, L., Sutton, M., McHardy, F., Silverman, E., ... & Katikireddi, S. (2024). Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999–2002. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 9, 100847.

• William Dowd
  PhD Health Economics and Policy, 2024
  Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Increasing Public Naloxone Availability to Reduce Overdose Deaths
  Supervisors: Eugenio Zucchelli; Ian Walker
• Patrick Berrigan
  PhD Health Economics and Policy, 2023
  Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Safe Consumption Sites
  Supervisors: Eugenio Zucchelli
• Rob Willans
  PhD Health Economics and Policy, 2023
  Thesis: Essays on Scale and Scope Economies in the English NHS
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Katharina Janke; Mike Tsionas
• Sebastian Lechner
  PhD Health Economics and Policy, 2023
  Thesis: Payment Models for Gene Therapies with Curative Potential Targeting Monogenic Disorders: A Swiss Study
  Supervisors: Céu Mateus; David Rietzke
• Aphrodite Spanou
  PhD Public Health, 2022
  Thesis: Quantitative analyses of human West Nile Virus outbreaks in Greece, Hungary, Italy and Romania, 2010-2015
  Supervisors: Luigi Sedda; Céu Mateus

• Mario Martinez Jimenez
  PhD Health Research, 2022
  Thesis: The Impact of Economic Shocks on Health and Health Inequalities
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Eugenio Zucchelli
• Alex Bates
  PhD Health Economics and Policy, 2022
  Thesis: “Feeling Better Than Ever”: Are there any internally consistent responses to the challenge of ‘better than perfect’ human health enhancement technology in a health technology appraisal context?
  Supervisors: Céu Mateus; Sam Clark
• Chiara Costi
  PhD Economics, 2022
  Thesis: Essays on the economic determinants of health and well-being
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Eugenio Zucchelli; Vincent O'Sullivan
• Carmen Savelli
  PhD Public Health, 2021
  Thesis: A mixed-method exploration into the experiences of members of the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN)
  Supervisors: Céu Mateus; Jane Simpson

• Christopher H. Herbst
  PhD Public Health, 2020
  Thesis: Labour market preferences, attitudes and expectations of prospective health workers in Guinea
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Céu Mateus
• Jack Higgins
  PhD Public Health, 2020
  Thesis: Ageing and Inequality
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Ian Walker
• Luke Wilson
  PhD Health Research, 2019
  Thesis: Essays on the economics of alcohol and risky behaviours
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Colin Green; Céu Mateus
• Emma Gorman
  PhD Economics, 2019
  Thesis: Three essays on the economics of human capital development
  Supervisors: Ian Walker; Eugenio Zucchelli
• Khaing Soe
  PhD Public Health, 2019
  Thesis: What is the association between maternal education and childhood mortality, childhood illnesses and utilisation of child health services in Myanmar?
  Supervisor: Paula Holland; Céu Mateus

• Alberto Nunez Elvira
  PhD Economics, 2018
  Thesis: Doctors' labour supply and incentives: A collection of essays
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Ian Walker
• Christian Bautista
  PhD Public Health, 2018
  Thesis: STD in the US Military
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Jon Read
• Ayesha Ali
  PhD Economics, 2016
  Thesis: Essays on health economics: Trans fat policies, commuting, physical activity and body mass index in the US
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Colin Green
• Shane Murphy
  PhD Economics, 2016
  Thesis: Essays on the health economics of hospital quality
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Colin Green
• Robert Pryce
  PhD Economics, 2016
  Thesis: The economics of alcohol: A collection of essays
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Ian Walker
• Miaoqing Yang
  PhD Economics, 2016
  Thesis: Health equity and public health
  Supervisors: Bruce Hollingsworth; Colin Green

Honorary Staff

Vincent O Sullivan
Eugenio Zucchelli

Research Students

Rubab Ahmed
Chiara Costi
Mustafa Ozer
Cansu Oymak

In addition, we have over 30 Blended Learning PhD and Master's students.