Dr Adam Martin

Profile

I am an Associate Professor in Health Economics and part of the Academic Unit of Health Economics at the University of Leeds. 

Research interests

I am particularly interested in:

• Health economic evaluation

• Randomised controlled trials

• Methods for measuring and valuing health-related quality of life

• Applied econometric methods, e.g. Instrumental Variables and Regression Discontinuity Design

• Secondary data analysis (observational data, real-world evidence and consumer data)

• Social determinants of health, especially related to diet and physical activity

• How (ill-)health affects labour market outcomes

• How travel, transport and urban design affects health and wellbeing

• Cancer, Dementia, Obesity, Mental health

Examples of recent or ongoing work:

• Financial incentives to promote healthier diets

• Does a health crisis change how we value health? (Co-I, funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation with PI Dr Ed Webb) 

• Relationship between arthritis and labour market outcomes (PI, using data from ELSA and Understanding Society, funded by Nuffield Foundation with Dr Nasir Rajah and Dr Ed Webb)

• Determinants of bicycle commuting and the effect of bicycle infrastructure investment (using UK Census microdata linked to geospatial data)

• Impact of a cancer diagnosis during childhood/early adulthood on long term education, labour market and wellbeing outcomes (Co-I, including using data from Understanding Society, funded by ESRC with PI Prof Daniel Stark)

• Relationship between ADHD-related symptoms during childhood and education/labour market outcomes during adulthood (using data from the British Cohort Study, with Dr Richard Mattock and Dr Nasir Rajah)

• Cost-effectiveness of the NHS Low Calorie Diet Programme (Co-I, funded by NIHR, with Prof Louisa Ells)

• Long term healthcare costs associated with a cancer diagnosis, including a comparison with matched controls without a cancer diagnosis (using linked data from ResearchOne and PLICS, funded by Macmillan Cancer Research with Prof Chris Bojke, Prof Adam Glaser and Prof Geoff Hall)

• Cost-effectiveness of an intervention that modifies three existing psychological therapies (behavioural activation, acceptance and commitment therapy, psychodynamic interpersonal therapy) to improve outcomes in people who repeatedly self-harm (FReSH-START trial, funded by NIHR, with Prof Chris Bojke and Dr Richard Mattock)

• Cost-effectiveness of a Drug-Free Interval Strategy (DFIS) compared to Conventional Continuation Strategy (CCS) of sunitibib or pazopanib in the management of patients with locally advanced and/or metastatic clear renal cell cancer (STAR trial, funded by NIHR, with Dr David Meads)

• Validity of different utility measures for people with dementia living in residential care:  comparisons of DEMQOL-Proxy-U and of Self- and Proxy-Completed EQ-5D-5L  (funded by NIHR, with Prof Claire Surr and Dr David Meads)

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

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 and PhD supervisor.

Current PhD students:

• Amwaj Abugamza (Impacts of COVID-19 on labour market outcomes)

• Maria Galazoula (Integrating health, environment and cost constraints into individual-level diet optimisation)

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