Anna Wilding

Anna is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at Health Organisation, Policy & Economics (HOPE) within the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research. She is evaluating the national rollout of social prescribing within the UK. This works with Paul Wilson, Prof Matt Sutton and Dr Luke Munford as part of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration in Greater Manchester.

She completed a PhD in Health Economics in 3 years, which started in October 2019 and was awarded the President's Doctoral Scholar Award. Her thesis title is "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. 

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

After her masters, she started work as a Research Associate at the Centre for Primary Care in the Health Organisation, Policy & Economics (HOPE) Centre in October 2017. Her past research has focused on applying econometrics and economics in health and healthcare settings.

Over the two years as a research associate, she worked on the following projects:

• 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 
• Determinants of the adoption and uptake of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisals
• Effects of participating in community assets on quality of life and costs of care: longitudinal cohort study of older people in England

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
• Deans 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)