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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    The University of Manchester

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    3 years

Course summary

Programme description

Our PhD/MPhil 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.

Tuition fees

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£ 27,000per year

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University information

University of Manchester

  • University League Table

    22nd

  • Campus address

    The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    18th out of 79 3

  • Entry standards

    / Max 227
    163 72%

    20th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    88.0 88%

    18th

    12
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.95 74%

    54th

    2

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