Health Economics

The Health Economics PhD programme at Bangor University will provide students with research skills relevant to employment in the academic and university sector, Health Service and other healthcare organisations as well as the private sector, such as consultancy and the pharmaceutical industry.

The  Health Economics Health Economics PhD programme at Bangor University Bangor University  also provides a dedicated route for high-calibre students who may have a specific research aim in mind and are ready to carry out independent research leading to PhD level study.

The PhD programme is embedded in the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) and students will be supported and guided by professional researchers within CHEME as part of postgraduate supervision. CHEME was founded in 2001 and is one of the leading health economics centres in the UK. CHEME contributed to the University’s highest ranked unit of assessment in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, with 95% of research outputs being world leading and internationally excellent and rating the University 3rd out of 94 institutions across the UK. CHEME is active across a wide range of health economic and medicines.

Research Opportunities

This course utilises the expertise of CHEME and draws on a wider health services research team embedded in the Bangor Institute of Health and Medical Research.

Students will be able to choose a topic that suits their professional or organisational goals linked to the following broad categories supported by CHEME:

• Pharmacoeconomics
  • Cost effectiveness analysis of medicines, pharmacogenetics, pharmaceutical services
  • Pharmaceutical policy
  • Methods of economic evaluation and health technology assessment
• Public Health Economics
  • Valuing nature, public health and the circular economy
  • Behavioural economics, public health and health policy
  • Application of cost benefit analysis and social return on investment analysis in public health