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:

• Resource Allocation for Local Public Health Services
• Health for Wealth: Building a Healthier Northern Powerhouse for UK Productivity
• Impact of removing indicators from Quality and Outcomes Framework
• Understanding the new commissioning system in England: contexts, mechanisms and  outcomes 
• Effects of participating in community assets on quality of life and costs of care: longitudinal cohort study of older people in England

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

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)