Dr Miaoqing Yang

Profile

I joined the Academic Unit of Health Economics as a Senior Research Fellow in June 2023. Prior to this, I worked at the Centre for Guidelines, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). I have also previously worked at RAND Europe and the Nuffield Department of Population Health at University of Oxford.

Our team consists of around 30 researchers with expertise including economic evaluation, distributional cost-effectiveness analysis, health economic modelling, discrete choice experiments, applied econometrics, observational data analysis, systematic review and evidence synthesis. We maintain active collaborations with many universities and policymakers in the UK and internationally.

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Research interests

My research interests include:

• Use of econometric techniques to identify causal inference from observational data
• Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and decision-analytic modelling
• Early economic evaluation modelling on diagnostic tests
• Economic determinants of health outcomes and health behaviour

My recent research projects: 

• ALABAMA: Penicillin allergy status and its effect on antimicrobial prescribing, patient outcomes, and antimicrobial resistance (NIHR PGfAR)
• CHART: Assessing the health economic impact of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to sustain independence for older people living with heart failure and frailty (NIHR HTA)
• Early economic evaluation of diagnostic tests for Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) (Leeds BRC)

Research groups and institutes

• Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
• Academic Unit of Health Economics
• Applied Health Econometrics Group
• Health economics
• Decision Modelling Group

Qualifications

• PhD Health Economics -- University of Lancaster (2016)
• MSc Health Economics -- University of York (2012)

Professional memberships

• UK Health Economics Study Group

Student education

I teach international health policy for an undergraduate module in health economics at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), and I am an MSc and PhD supervisor.  

My current MSc and PhD students are: 

• Xiaoxiang Dai (Obesity and labour market outcomes using CFPS/China Family Panel Studies data)

• Abeer Almalki (Glucocorticoid toxicity and multimorbidity in people with Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases)

• Rhys Williams (A systematic review on the methods for economic evaluations of behavioural weight management interventions)

Research groups and institutes

• Health economics
• Academic Unit of Health Economics