Dr Mark Pennington MSc PhD

Lecturer in Health Economics

Mark worked as a medicinal chemist for ten years in the pharmaceutical industry prior to completing an MSc in Health Economics at York in 2006. Following a summer placement in Newcastle he joined as research associate and worked on a number of projects spanning evaluation and elicitation of health preferences. The largest of these was 'EuroVaQ', a survey of 40,000 people across ten countries ascertaining willingness to pay for health gains. He joined LSHTM in September 2010.

Affiliation

Teaching

Mark teaches on the introduction to health economics module, the economic evaluation module, and the proposal development module.

Research

Mark's main interests are in the development of economic evaluation methodology, especially the use of observational data and the quantitative analysis of health interventions. He is currently working on a DoH sponsored project to examine the cost-effectiveness of alternative hip and knee prostheses based on data from the National Joint Registry and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). He also has interests in the application of economic evaluation in oral health and dental technology.

Research areas

  • Decision analysis
  • Economic evaluation
  • Health technology assessment
  • Modelling

Disciplines

  • Economics

Other interests

  • Cost Effectiveness Analysis
  • Health Economics
  • Longitudinal And Survival Data
  • Oral Health
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