Surrey Health Economics Centre
The Surrey Health Economics Centre (SHEC) conducts research in the field of Health Economics and related disciplines.
About us
The Surrey Health Economics Centre (SHEC) undertakes collaborative interdisciplinary research in health economics and health service delivery. The team at SHEC supports applied research in the health, medicine and social care fields, and has strong relationships with a large number of academic, NHS and private sector partners across the UK and internationally. Much of SHEC’s research focuses on practical issues, and on advising and influencing public policy. The Centre has attracted multiple research grants for evaluative studies from NIHR, European, charity and industry funders. Papers are published in a range of leading journals.
Members of SHEC work closely with other researchers in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine and the wider University.
SHEC leads the Health and Social Care Economics theme for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration - Kent, Surrey and Sussex (ARCKSS). For further details on the ARCKSS website.
SHEC is also hosting and coordinating Surrey Global Health Research Network (SGHRN).
In SHEC, we actively encourage and support postgraduate research students in health economics or health services as part of an MPhil/PhD or MD programme.
Our research
Some of our recent or ongoing research projects include:
Research in a care home setting: Relationship between staff and quality of care in care homes
Innovative healthcare technologies in traumatic brain injury - Collaborations with CORTIRIO: Development and clinical study of a wearable brain imaging device to detect intracranial bleeding at the point of care
AI-Dental project: Development and pre-market evaluation of AI-assisted dental disease detection with radiography
The REDUCE2 study: Palliative Long-term Abdominal Drains Versus Repeated Drainage in Untreatable Ascites Due to Advanced Cirrhosis: A Randomised Controlled Trial (REDUCe 2 Study)
CHELSEA II: CHELsea II: Cluster randomised trial of clinically assisted hydration in patients in the last days of life
Non-medical practitioner workforce into the urgent and emergency care system: Implementation of the non-medical practitioner workforce into the urgent and emergency care system skill-mix in England: a mixed methods study of configurations and impact. https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR131356
Meet the team
Centre lead
Professor Heather Gage
Professor of Health Economics
Research staff
Dr Matthew Glover
Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics
Dr Daniel Jackson
Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics (part time)
Dr Bridget Jones
Research Fellow and Health Psychologist
Xiaoxian Liang
Research Fellow in Health Economics
Dr Morro Touray
Research Fellow in Health Economics & Sustainability Fellow
Visiting researchers and PhD students
Walid Fahmy
Visiting Research Fellow