Richard Smith BA MSc PhD

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Background

I have been a Health Economist for nearly 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 Health Policy Unit at the LSHTM in May 2007. I am also an Honorary Professor of Health Economics at the Universities of Hong Kong and East Anglia.

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.

Teaching

I currently undertake the majority of lectures for the Introduction to Health Economics module on the MSc programme, as well as other single lectures for other modules and contribute to the Distance Learning progamme in the area of Health Economics.

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. tourism, travel and leisure sectors) and between different countries (e.g. through movement of health professionals).  This interest has been manifest in three areas: (i) macro-economic modeling of health (care), predominantly through a series of European Union funded projects concerning the impact of infectious disease and polices to contain infectious disease; (ii) economic analysis of the impact of trade and trade agreements, working especially closely with colleagues from the World Health Organization; and (iii) international financing for health and health care, especially the application of the 'Global Public Goods' concept.  Examples of this work are available in the selected publications.

Selected publications

• Smith, R.D. Responding to global infectious disease outbreaks: Lessons from SARS on the role of risk perception, communication and management Social Science and Medicine, 2006; 63(12):3113-23
• Smith, R.D.; Yago, M.; Millar, M.; Coast, J. Assessing the macroeconomic impact of a healthcare problem: The application of computable general equilibrium analysis to antimicrobial resistance Journal of Health Economics, 2005; 24(6):1055-75
• Smith, R.D.; Yago, M.; Millar, M.; Coast, J. A Macroeconomic Approach to Evaluating Policies to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance: A Case Study of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Appl Health Econ Health Policy, 2006; 5(1):55-65
• Smith, R.D. Foreign direct investment and trade in health services: a review of the literature Social Science and Medicine, 2004; 59(11):2313-23
• Smith, R.; Woodward, D.; Acharya, A.; Beaglehole, R.; Drager, N.; Communicable disease control: a 'Global Public Good' perspective. Health Policy Plan, 2004; 19(5):271-8
• Smith, R.D.; Beaglehole, R.; Drager, N.; Woodward, D. Global Public Goods for Health: a health economic and public health perspective OUP (Oxford) 2003
• Smith, R.D. Trade and public health: facing the challenges of globalisation Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006; 60(8):650-1
• Smith, R.; Thorsteinsdottir, H; Daar, A; Gold, R; Singer, P; Genomics knowledge and equity: a global public good's perspective of the patent system Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 2004; 82(5):385-389

Full publications listing (since 2001)