Our PhDMPhil Health Economics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Health Economics. Our main research themes within health economics apply or develop economic methods to understand incentives and provider performance; equity in healthcare and geographical resource allocation; workforce planning and determinants of labour supply; measurement and valuation of preferences for benefits of healthcare; determinants of variation in healthcare costs and benefits; economic evaluation of complex cross-therapeutic interventions; utilisation of routinely collected data across health and social care to value costs and benefits in economic evaluation; causal analysis of complex interventions, complex needs and less-regulated (mainly diagnostic) services; innovative study design to take account of complexity in intervention design and increase in emphasis on integration of health and social care. The research covers a number of clinical areas, including for example, ageing, mental health, precision medicine and patient safety.