Richard Cookson Professor - University of York Health Economics, Philosophy |
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01.03.2022-29.03.2022
Rethinking health inequality: ethics, economics and evidence
This residency will allow me to complete key writing tasks for a monograph entitled “Rethinking health inequality: ethics, economics and evidence”, to be published by Oxford University Press in their “Population Level Bioethics” series edited by Nir Eyal and Dan Wikler from Harvard School of Public Health. The aim of this monograph is to help the next generation of health care and public health leaders think more clearly about their health inequality objectives and make better use of evidence to achieve those objectives. The residency will allow me to improve the quality and coherence of the monograph through a sustained period of writing, reflection and scholarly discussion with fellow Brocher residents and with international policymakers and analysts based in Geneva. -
02.07.2018-27.07.2018
Equity implications of health technology: combining ethics and economics
This residency allowed me to complete key tasks in lead editing a handbook of training materials in equity-informative methods of health economic evaluation for analysts in low-, middle- and high-income countries. The residency allowed me to improve the quality and coherence of these training materials through a sustained period of writing, liaison with chapter authors, and scholarly discussion with fellow Brocher residents and with international policymakers and analysts based in Geneva. The training materials have now been published in the form of a book and a set of accompanying hands-on spreadsheet training materials: Cookson, R, Griffin, S, Norheim OF. and Culyer, AJ. (Eds). (2021). Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis: quantifying health equity impacts and trade-offs. Oxford University Press. DOI 10.1093/med/9780198838197.001.0001 Further details are here: https://www.york.ac.uk/che/publications/books/handbook-dcea/ Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help healthcare and public health organizations make fairer decisions with better outcomes. It provides information about equity in the distribution of costs and effects — who gains, who loses, and by how much. It can also analyse the trade-offs that sometimes occur between equity and efficiency. This is a practical guide to methods for quantifying the equity impacts of health programmes in high, middle, and low-income countries. The methods can be tailored to analyse different equity concerns in different decision making contexts. The handbook provides both hands-on training for postgraduate students and analysts and an accessible guide for academics, practitioners, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders.
Richard Cookson is a professor at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York. He has helped pioneer “equity-informative” methods of policy analysis, including distributional cost-effectiveness analysis; health equity indicators for healthcare quality assurance; and methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequality. He has co-chaired international working groups on equity, worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and served on various NHS advisory committees.