ProfStephen Goodall

Stephen is a Health Economist and a Deputy Director of CHERE. He is also the manager of the economic evaluation research group. This role involves managing a group of health economists, and liaising, negotiating contracts and completing reports with commissioning agencies. His main areas of interest are; economic evaluation of health technologies, public health, primary care, access to health care and equity.

He also provides postgraduate lectures on topics aligned with his research (to date: "Introduction to Health Economics" and "Planning and Evaluating Health Services"). Stephen completed a Master of Health Economics from the University of York. His thesis, an econometric analysis of the HILDA (a large panel) dataset, titled "Is hospital treatment in Australia equitable?" was undertaken at the University of Melbourne. He has a PhD in Vascular Medicine from the University of Leicester, which focused on health services research.

Prior to joining CHERE Stephen worked for 7 years within clinical development, where he helped design and managed national and international randomised clinical trials. He was also responsible for training and supervising medical colleagues during their research sabbatical. He spent two years in the Pharmaceutical Industry. At the University of Bristol he managed a large multi-centred UK Government sponsored evaluation of access to primary care.

His work has led to numerous peer reviewed journal articles and conference presentations, as well as several commissioned reports.