Genomic Technology
HERC is involved in analysing the economic implications in several studies in the area of genomic technologies. These studies span numerous disease areas including cancers, cardiovascular disease and infectious diseases within hospitals and use a range of health economics tools, especially micro-costing, modelling and discrete choice experiments
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The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
HERC was established by the University of Oxford in 1996. Our aim is to contribute to health and healthcare in the UK and internationally, by conducting research on economic aspects of health and disease, the costs and benefits of prevention and treatment, and the design and evaluation of health systems.
Watch videos of our staff, students and alumni on the HERC@25 page.
Latest publications
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Employment outcomes of people with Long Covid symptoms: community-based cohort study
Ayoubkhani D. et al, (2023)
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We need to talk about values: a proposed framework for the articulation of normative reasoning in health technology assessment
MORRELL L. and charlton V., (2023), Health Economics, Policy and Law
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Sick leave due to COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave in France, 2020
Smith DRM. et al, (2023), Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Improving the representativeness of UK’s national COVID-19 Infection Survey through spatio-temporal regression and post-stratification
Pouwels KB. et al, (2023)
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An Economic Model for Estimating Trial Costs with an Application to Placebo Surgery Trials.
Schilling C. et al, (2023), Appl Health Econ Health Policy, 21, 263 - 273
HERC & Oxford NIHR BRC - RESEARCH TRAINING Bursary Scheme
Since 2015, HERC has been in collaboration with the Research Education and Training Group at the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Council (Oxford NIHR BRC) and has supported over 50 funded places to attend our Health Economics Short Courses.
For more information on how to apply for these bursaries, please visit the Oxford NIHR BRC website
Latest news
Recruitment opportunities: two Grade 8 Senior Researcher posts in Health Economics
13 January 2023
Closing date: noon on 16 February 2023
HERC Newsletter - Issue 42 - December 2022. Available Now
14 December 2022
2023 Programme: HERC Short Courses in Health Economics
HERC offers a varied programme of short courses designed for health economists, health care professionals, academic researchers, students and clinical investigators at different stages in their careers.
- Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation: 23 & 24 May - Registration open
- Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis: 27 - 31 March - Registration open
- Integrating Economic Evaluation into Clinical Trials: 25 & 26 April - Registration open
- Understanding and Predicting Choice Behaviour in Health: Preference Elicitation and Analysis: new course dates will be scheduled soon. Please register your interest here
For full information on all the above courses, including pricing, please visit https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses
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