The Manchester Centre for Health Economics (MCHE) provides academic expertise in health economics for the delivery of research programmes and projects, and to support the development of the careers of early and mid-career researchers.
Our expertise
Key Research Themes
Methodological Expertise
Our team of dedicated researchers offers leading expertise across a wide spectrum of health-related disciplines. We focus on generating impactful research through the application of robust and innovative methods.
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Our research
Health economics involves the development and application of economic methods for studying the production of health, illness and recovery.
It furthers understanding of the behaviour of individuals, health care providers and health systems, and compares alternative uses of health care resources to improve the health of individuals, patient groups and populations.
Much of our work is grant-funded from national and international funding bodies but also from charity-based organisations.
The team currently hold grants from a wide range of funders, notably the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), the Department of Health and the European Union.
Key charities which support our research include Cancer Research UK and Versus Arthritis.
Examples of research programmes we work with include:
In addition, members of staff within MCHE support and working collaboratively with the University of Manchester Innovation Factory and the Diagnostics and Technology Accelerator to help small- to medium-sized enterprises and academic teams understand the value of their proposed health care innovations.
We contribute to professional training qualifications and undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University.
Professional training qualifications include teaching a module on economic evaluation for two Scientist Training Programmes in clinical bioinformatics and genomic counselling.
We also contribute to the Epidemiology Summer School organised by the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care.
We supervise projects in health economics for medical students completed as part of the MBChB Medicine programme for second and third year medical students on the Personal Excellence Pathway (PEP) and Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP).
We also contribute to health economics modules on three postgraduate courses at the University:
- MSc Economics (Health Specialisation)
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Masters of Public Health (MPH): Economic evaluation in healthcare
- MSc Genomic Medicine: Economics of genomics and precision medicine
- MSc Clinical Pharmacy: Health Economics
Core Academic & Research Staff (Click to Expand)
Research Associate in Mathematical Modelling
PhD Students, Honorary, Emeritus & Admin Staff (Click to Expand)
Administrator
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Our researchers post regularly on our blog
MCHE seminar series
Our weekly Monday meetings will host a range of talks and presentations.
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Centre Lead
Professor Rachel Elliott
Professor of Health Economics
Email: rachel.a.elliott@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 5846
Deputy Centre Lead
Dr Alexander Thompson
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics
Email: alexander.thompson@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 0335
General enquiries
Matthew Ward
Administrator for Health Economics
Email: matthew.ward@manchester.ac.uk
Twitter: @HealthEcon_MCR
Contact Us
+44 (0) 161 306 6000
