Dr Robert Smith
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Research Associate
Full contact details
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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**Wellcome Funded Post Doctoral Researcher**
Robert is a Health Economist specializing in the application of methods from data-science to health economic evaluation in public health and Health Technology Assessment. Having worked through the pandemic at the UK Health Security Agency, Rob returned to a part time research position at ScHARR alongside consulting work. All of Rob's research is published open-access.
- Qualifications
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PhD, MSc
- Research interests
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Application of methods from data science to the economic evaluation of healthcare and population health interventions, with a specific interest in modelling non-communicable diseases. A list of slides and talks can be found here: https://github.com/RobertASmith/talks
- Publications
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- Grants
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Wellcome Transition Fund
- Teaching activities
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Robert teaches short courses on the use of R for health economic evaluation, collaboration using GitHub and the development of automated reporting and web-based user-interfaces. He has previously taught MSc modules on Advanced Simulation Methods and Medical Statistics at ScHARR.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Expert Advisor to the WHO's Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and cycling.
- Scientific Committee for R-HTA.
- Reviewer for several highly reputable journals.