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Anna is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at Health Organisation, Policy & Economics (HOPE) within the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research. Currently, she is evaluating the roll out of social prescribing link workers in primary care with Paul Wilson, Prof Matt Sutton and Dr Luke Munford. This is part of the NIHR HSDR Grant 134066. Additional research interests are primary care workforce, financial incentives, community participation, women’s health, labour economics and mental health, and how health inequalities interact with these.

She finished her PhD in Health Economics in 2022 and was awarded the President's Doctoral Scholar Award. Her thesis title was "Econometric Analysis of Health and Well-being Returns to Social Participation". This assessed the predictors of social participation and the heterogeneous health and well-being returns. This was supervised by Prof Matt Sutton, Prof Pete Bower and Dr Luke Munford and funded by Wellcome. 

Before her PhD, she was a Research Associate at the Centre for Primary Care in the Health Organisation, Policy & Economics (HOPE) Centre. Over the two years in the role, she worked on the following projects, to name few:

Before this, she graduated from the University of Manchester with a distinction in MSc Economics (Economics of Health) in 2017 and first-class honours in BEconSc Economics in 2016.

Academic Achievements:

  • Jon Stewart Prize for Econometrics: for attaining the highest econometrics average in the graduating MSc Economics cohort
  • President's Doctoral Scholar Award: awarded to 3% of research students who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership potential
  • Dean’s Award: for graduating with a final grade over 75% in an undergraduate degree
  • Manchester School Award: for final year grades in the Economics undergraduate cohort and contribution to the course in non-curriculum activities

Qualifications

PhD Health Economics (University of Manchester, 2022)

MSc Economics (Economics of Health) with Distinction (University of Manchester, 2017)

BEconSc(Hons) Economics with first class honours (University of Manchester, 2016)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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