Professor Subhash Pokhrel
Professor - Public Health Economics

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PhD in health economics

PhD in public health and health promotion

Subhash welcomes applications from prospective PhD students. Please email him a 4-page outline of your PhD project idea, describing: (i) the critical knowledge gaps; (ii) potential sources of data; and (iii) your approach to analysis. Your project is expected to answer one of the following two questions (please adapt them to your own specific needs): 

1. In LMICs and industrialised countries, what (policies, interventions and tools) works to improve population health outcomes and at what costs?
2. In LMICs and industrialised countries, what (policies, interventions and tools) works to develop or strengthen national health research systems and at what costs?      

The following is a list of indicative topic areas for potential PhD students:

• Return on Investment modelling in public health
• Cross-context Transferability of economic evidence 
• Understanding pathways from health behaviour change (e.g. stopping to smoke) to QALYs and cost-savings
• Return on investment from stakeholder engagement in research
• Return on investment from knowledge translation (i.e. filling the 'knowledge-to-action' gaps)
• Cost-effectiveness of initiatives targetted at strengthening national health research systems 

Potential candidates are encouraged to approach Subhash on Subhash.Pokhrel@brunel.ac.uk or 01895 268745. They are also encouraged to read more information about research at HERG.

It is important to note that your email request may not be attended to if your potential PhD project does not address the above two questions or is not related to one of the above indicative topic areas. So, please do consider carefully the above scope before contacting Subhash.  

Doctoral researchers (PhD/DrPH students): (selected)

• Nana Anokye (Evaluation research: Impact of price on the demand for physical activity) - awarded
• Anna E Olafsdottir (Evaluation research: Impact of health systems governance on child health outcomes) - awarded
• Glenn Stewart (Evaluation research: What interventions improve population levels of physical activity?) - awarded
• Teresa Jones (Research on research: An exploration of pathways to research impact) - awarded
• Jeshika Singh (Evaluation research: Development of descriptive system to capture hospital inpatient experience) - awarded
• Lucy Kanya (Evaluation research: An exploration of construct validity in the WTP studies) - awarded
• Kingsley Agyemang (Evaluation research: Determinants of obesity in Ghana) - awarded
• Matthew Glover (Evaluation research: Health economic modelling to assess payback from both healthcare and research into healthcare) - awarded
• Mohammad Mansoor (Evaluation research: Impact of Integrated Care Model on population health outcomes) - ongoing
• Bernard Boye (Evaluation research: Impact of economic incentives on health care workforce in Ghana) - ongoing 
• Amrit Banstola (Evaluation research: Cost of illness of multiple long term conditions (MLTCs) in South Asia and cost-effectiveness of interventions to address MLTCs) - ongoing 

Visiting doctoral researchers: 

• Ana Magdalena Vargas-Martínez, Spain (Evaluation study: Measuring the impact on quality of life of an intervention to reduce binge drinking in Spain) - awarded
• Priyanga Ranasinghe, Sri Lanka  (Evaluation research: Economics of physical activity in low- and middle-income countries) - awarded
• Dhanushka Perera, Sri Lanka (Evaluation research: Economics of cancer in South Asia - a systematic review) - ongoing     

Research supervision