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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.

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

HERC Newsletter - Issue 32 - August 2020 OUT NOW!!

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.

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.

Latest publications

Obtaining EQ-5D-5L utilities from the disease specific Quality of Life Alzheimer’s Disease Scale: Development and results from a mapping study
ROMBACH I. et al, (2020), Quality of Life Research
Delayed antibiotic prescription by general practitioners in the UK: a stated-choice study
MORRELL E. et al, (2020), Antibiotics
Costs of joint replacement in osteoarthritis: a study using the National Joint Registry and Clinical Practice Research Datalink datasets
LEAL J. et al, (2020), Arthritis Care and Research
How Should a Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccine be Allocated? Health Economists Need to be Ready to Take the Baton.
Roope LSJ. et al, (2020), Pharmacoecon Open
Mesothelioma and Radical Surgery 2 (MARS 2): protocol for a multicentre randomised trial comparing (extended) pleurectomy decortication versus no (extended) pleurectomy decortication for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Lim E. et al, (2020), BMJ Open, 10, e038892 - e038892
Global Public Perceptions of Genomic Data Sharing: What Shapes the Willingness to Donate DNA and Health Data?
Middleton A. et al, (2020), The American Journal of Human Genetics
Conventional versus minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: protocol for a randomised controlled trial (COMICS).
COMICS investigators None., (2020), Perfusion

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