Professor Richard Smith BA MSc PhD

Professor of Health System Economics

I have been a Health Economist for over 20 years, following undergraduate and postgraduate studies in economics at the University of York. Upon leaving York in 1991, I worked in Sydney, Cambridge, Bristol, Melbourne and Norwich, before joining the LSHTM in May 2007.

I have worked in a number of areas of health economics, such as the monetary and non-monetary valuation of health, health care reform and genomics. More recently my work has focused especially upon developing the application of macro-economics to health, the economics of globalization and health, and aspects of trade in health goods, services, people and ideas.

Affiliation

Teaching

I am involved in the new Distance Learning MSc in Global Health Policy, launched in October 2011.

Research

My current interests are broadly in the interaction and interface between a nations health system and other systems - both within the nation (e.g. agriculture, manufacturing and finance sectors) and between different countries (e.g. through movement of health professionals).  This interest has been manifest in two areas: (i) macro-economic modeling of health (care), concerning the impact of communicable and non-communicable diseases and related polices; and(ii) economic analysis of the impact of trade and trade agreements.  Examples of this work are available in the selected publications.

Research areas

  • Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • Complex interventions
  • Drug resistance
  • Globalisation
  • Health systems
  • Methodology
  • Modelling
  • Trade

Disciplines

  • Economics

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Chronic disease
  • Emerging Infectious Disease
  • Infectious disease
  • Influenza
  • Malaria
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Obesity
  • Pandemic diseases

Regions

  • World

Countries

  • Ghana
  • Mozambique
  • Thailand
  • Uganda
  • United Kingdom
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