Prevention, behaviour and healthcare expenditure
How changes in smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity and other behaviours translate into healthcare costs and long-run fiscal pressures.
Public-facing evidence ↗RESEARCH
Evidence for health systems, public finance and policy.
My research combines applied economics and econometrics with questions that matter to governments, healthcare systems and citizens: how to improve health, raise productivity and use public resources more effectively.
Technology, incentives and hospital performance
How medical technologies, organisational choices and provider incentives shape efficiency and outcomes in healthcare systems.
Brunel research profile ↗Taxation, demographics and fiscal sustainability
Research and commentary on taxation, fertility, public expenditure and the constraints facing governments in ageing economies.
Read commentary →Spatial dependence and applied econometric methods
Methodological work on spatial econometrics and empirical strategies for analysing interconnected health and economic outcomes.
Ca’ Foscari profile ↗RESEARCH THEMES
Health economics connected to public decisions.
The common thread is empirical evidence: measuring how behaviour, institutions and incentives affect health outcomes, healthcare expenditure, productivity and fiscal sustainability.
From behaviour to budgets
Prevention is both a health question and an economic one. The research agenda links behavioural change to demand for healthcare, public expenditure and the longer-run sustainability of health systems.
Productivity and performance
Healthcare productivity depends on technology, organisation, incentives and the way providers interact. Applied economic analysis helps separate what improves outcomes from what simply raises costs.
Evidence under fiscal constraint
Ageing populations, prevention, taxation and public spending are connected. The aim is to frame those trade-offs in a way that can inform policy rather than treating health and fiscal policy as separate debates.
Interdependence matters
Spatial and applied econometric methods are useful when health and economic outcomes are connected across places, providers or populations. That interdependence is central to credible empirical work.
RESEARCH TO IMPACT
From academic evidence to public decision-making.
Research has been cited by international institutions, used in parliamentary and policy debate, and covered across international media.
World Health Organization & OECD
Institutional citations
Institutional citations
European, UK, Scottish & Italian policy debate
Evidence and expert engagement
Evidence and expert engagement
1,000+ media citations and interviews
Public communication
Public communication