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.
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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.
Read moreHERC announcement: Change in leadership
Messages from our departing director, Professor Alastair Gray and our new director, Professor Philip Clarke.
Read moreHERC Newsletter - Issue 25 OUT NOW!
The November 2018 edition of the HERC newsletter is now available (click image to download)
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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
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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Measuring the Economic Value of Sequencing: Why is it Important, Why is it Challenging, and What are Solutions
Phillips KA. et al, (2018), Journal of molecular diagnostics, 20, 903 - 903
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Written communications from hospital diabetes departments: standards required to mitigate unintentional harm
MC MORROW L. et al, (2018), Diabetic medicine
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Multi-Centre Micro-Costing of Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, Sleeve Gastrectomy and Adjustable Gastric Banding Procedures for the Treatment of Severe, Complex Obesity.
Doble B. et al, (2018), Obes surg
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Household costs and time to treatment for children with severe febrile illness in rural Burkina Faso: the role of rectal artesunate.
Castellani J. et al, (2018), Malar j, 17
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A protocol for the process evaluation of a multi-centre randomised trial to compare the effectiveness of geriatrician-led admission avoidance hospital at home versus inpatient admission.
Mäkelä P. et al, (2018), Trials, 19
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Ordinal vs dichotomous analyses of modified Rankin Scale, 5-year outcome, and cost of stroke.
Ganesh A. et al, (2018), Neurology
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Correction to: multiple imputation for patient reported outcome measures in randomised controlled trials: advantages and disadvantages of imputing at the item, subscale or composite score level.
Rombach I. et al, (2018), Bmc med res methodol, 18
Latest news
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HERC announcement: Change in leadership
30 November 2018
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HERC Newsletter - Issue 25 OUT NOW!
30 November 2018
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New Job Opportunity: Senior Researcher in Health Economics
21 November 2018
Forthcoming HERC Courses
Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation
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Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
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Forthcoming HERC Seminars
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Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Comparative Value Assessment throughout the Drug Lifecycle
Dr Tommi Tervonen, Research Scientist and Consultant at Evidera, London, UK
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 2.30pm to 3.30pm
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Title to be confirmed
Dr Dan Howdon, Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, Leeds University
Thursday, 07 February 2019