Dr Adam Martin

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Deputy Head of the Academic Unit of Health Economics at the University of Leeds.

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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Responsibilities

• Deputy Head, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds
• Director of Research and Innovation, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences

Research interests

My research involves applied and methodological work on the following topics:

• Social determinants of health, especially diet and exercise
• Education, employment and health
• Transport and health
• Children and young people
• Financial incentives, e.g. to promote healthier diets and active travel
• Obesity and type 2 diabetes, e.g. economic evaluations of HENRY and NHSE’s Low Calorie Diet programme and Complications of Excess Weight clinics
• Mental health, e.g. FReSH START
• Cancer, e.g. STAR
• Dementia
• Arthritis
• Preference-based utility measures

My work has been funded by ESRC, EuroQol Research Foundation, EU, Highways England, MRC, NIHR, Nuffield Foundation and the UK-China Health and Economy Partnership.  Current research collaborators include Leeds Beckett University, Sheffield Hallam University, the Leeds Institute for Transport Studies and Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, the London Centre for Work and Health, University of Cambridge and University of Southampton.

• ARISE - ARthrItiS and Employment
• Exploring the health benefits of net-zero transport

Qualifications

• PhD Health Economics – University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich
• MSc Health Economics – University of York
• MLitt Economics and International Relations – University of St Andrews (postgraduate)
• MA (Hons.) Economics (2.1) – University of St Andrews

Professional memberships

• UK Health Economics Study Group
• Society for Social Medicine & Population Health

Student education

I currently lead an undergraduate module in health economics at Leeds University Business School (LUBS) and have previously taught postgraduate modules in health economics and applied econometrics.

I am an MSc, MRes and PhD supervisor.

Current PhD students:

• Amwaj Abugamza (Health, psychological wellbeing and economic inactivity since the COVID-19 pandemic using UKHLS data)

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

• Huahan Yang (Impacts of contemporary economic shocks on health and financial inequalities using ELSA and UKHLS data)

Research groups and institutes

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

Current postgraduate researchers

• Amwaj Abugamza
• Huahan Yang