
Dr Adam Martin
- Position: Senior Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: health economics; applied econometrics; policy evaluation; statistics; economic modelling; social determinants of health; preference-based utility measures
- Email: A.Martin1@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 5330
- Location: 11.59 Worsley Building
- Website: Twitter | LinkedIn
Profile
Adam Martin is an economist and Senior Research Fellow with the Academic Unit of Health Economics at the University of Leeds.
Research interests
I am particularly interested in:
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Health economic evaluation in randomised controlled trials and methods used for measuring and valuing health-related quality of life
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Applied econometric methods for analysing quasi-randomised experiments, e.g. Instrumental Variables and Regression Discontinuity Design
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Secondary data analysis (observational data, real-world evidence and consumer data), data linkage and data harmonisation
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Social determinants of health, especially related to diet and physical activity
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How (ill-)health affects labour market outcomes
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Transport policy and how the design of urban built environments may affect health and wellbeing
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Cancer, Dementia, Obesity
Examples of recent or ongoing work includes studies of the:
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Relationship between arthritis and labour market outcomes (PI, using data from ELSA and Understanding Society, funded by Nuffield Foundation with Dr Nasir Rajah)
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Determinants of bicycle commuting and the effect of bicycle infrastructure investment (using UK Census microdata linked to geospatial data)
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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 Prof Daniel Stark)
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Relationship between ADHD-related symptoms during childhood and education/labour market outcomes during adulthood (using data from the British Cohort Study, with Dr Nasir Rajah)
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Cost-effectiveness of the NHS Low Calorie Diet Programme (Co-I, funded by NIHR, with Prof Louisa Ells)
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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)
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Impact of commuting on wellbeing (Co-I, using data from Understanding Society, funded by ESRC)
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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)
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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)
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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.
Research groups and institutes
- Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
- Academic Unit of Health Economics
- Applied Health Econometrics Group
- Health economics
- Decision Modelling Group