New Job Opportunity: Researcher in Health Economics
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Short courses in health economics: Booking is now open for the one day 'Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation' course which will be held in both May and November 2019.
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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 Nuffield Department of Population Health has a full-time three year DPhil programme intended to train new researchers in Population Health. HERC is currently advertising two DPhil (PhD) projects for admission in 2019.
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Research
Our purpose is to contribute through our research to health and healthcare in the UK and internationally. We examine the economic aspects of health and disease, the costs and benefits of prevention and treatment, and the design and evaluation of health systems. Of particular importance in all areas is the rigour and innovativeness of the research methods we use.
Read moreThe 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.
Latest publications
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The QuinteT Recruitment Intervention supported five randomized trials to recruit to target: a mixed-methods evaluation
Rooshenas L. et al, (2019), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 106, 108 - 120
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Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotics for Bone and Joint Infection
WALKER A., (2019), New England Journal of Medicine
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Optimisation of Perioperative Cardiovascular Management to Improve Surgical Outcome II (OPTIMISE II) trial: study protocol for a multicentre international trial of cardiac output-guided fluid therapy with low-dose inotrope infusion compared with usual care in patients undergoing major elective gastrointestinal surgery.
Edwards MR. et al, (2019), BMJ Open, 9
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Identifying English Practices that Are High Antibiotic Prescribers Accounting for Comorbidities and Other Legitimate Medical Reasons for Variation
Hope EC. et al, (2018), EClinicalMedicine, 6, 36 - 41
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The impact of redistribution mechanisms in the vote with the wallet game: experimental results
Becchetti L. et al, (2018), Social Choice and Welfare, 51, 595 - 619
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Cost-effectiveness of digital surveillance clinics with optical coherence tomography versus hospital eye service follow-up for patients with screen-positive maculopathy.
Leal J. et al, (2018), Eye (Lond)
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Valuation of EuroQol Five-Dimensional Questionnaire, Youth Version (EQ-5D-Y) and EuroQol Five-Dimensional Questionnaire, Three-Level Version (EQ-5D-3L) Health States: The Impact of Wording and Perspective.
Kreimeier S. et al, (2018), Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 21, 1291 - 1298
Latest news
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Ten-year outcomes of the Arterial Revascularisation Trial
31 January 2019
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New Job Opportunity: Researcher in Health Economics
23 January 2019
Forthcoming HERC Courses
Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation
- THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019, OXFORD.
- FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019, OXFORD.
- THURSDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2019, OXFORD.
- FRIDAY, 8 NOVEMBER 2019, OXFORD.
Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- WEDNESDAY 10 JULY - FRIDAY 12 JULY 2019, OXFORD. BOOKING NOW OPEN
HERC & BRC Bursary Scheme
Since 2015, HERC has been in collaboration with the Research Education and Training Group at the Biomedical Research Council (BRC) and has supported over 30 funded places to attend our Health Economics Short Courses.
For more information on how to apply for these bursaries please visit the Oxford BRC website HERE
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