Dr. Hasan Basarir, BSc (Penn State), MSc & PhD (York)

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HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
UK

Office: 1011

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 6397
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

E-mail: h.basarir [at] sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I am a health economic modeller in ScHARR, working on long-term cost-effectiveness modelling in a number of disease areas including Type I Diabetes and radiology. I joined HEDS in June 2011, after completing a BSc from the Pennsylvania State University, and an MSc and a PhD from University of York. My PhD thesis was on multidimensional well-being and the effect of relative wealth on self-reported and mental health in developing countries.

Research interests

My research interests are:

Cost-effectiveness modelling
Multidimensional and subjective well-being
Discrete event simulation
Healthcare modelling
Applied microeconomics

Teaching interests

Economic Evaluation
Health Care Finance and Economic Evaluation in Public Health
MBChB

Current projects

I am currently working on the following projects:

Modelling generic type-1 diabetes model to estimate the cost-effectiveness of NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)
Improving management of Type 1 diabetes in the UK: the DAFNE programme as a research test-bed
A multi-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial comparing structured education (the KICk-OFF course) with standard care in 11-16 year olds with Type 1 Diabetes (T1DM) on intensive insulin therapy.
Cost-effectiveness of DXA scans in children with low bone mineral density
Cost Modelling of the Haemato-Oncology Diagnostic Services Provision in Sheffield Hospitals

Key publications

Ara R, Basarir H, Ward SE. Principles of health economic evaluations of lipid-lowering strategies. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2012 Aug; 23(4): 271-81. (link)
Basarir H. Poor, multidimensionally speaking: Evidence from South Africa. Journal of African Economies 2011;20(3):463-504. (link)
HIV/AIDS programs in Africa and the global economics crisis - an assessment of the particular vulnerability of treatment programs to interruptions in funding: a case study of Malawi. With Paul Revill, Edward Lahiff, Padhraig Ryan, Verity Outram and Steve Thomas. Economics Reference Group - Sixth Meeting (December 2009).