Faculty webinar - Why we all need a little bit of health economics in our lives with Professor Deb Fitzsimmons

In this webinar, Professor Deb Fitzsimmons introduces you to the purpose and basic principles of health economics. Drawing on her own experience, she explains why health economics is important and relevant to making difficult choices in health and social care and how health economics can support the lifecycle of research and evidence generation into policy and practice.

She outlines the basic principles used in health and care economics and through selected case studies, Deb outlines some of the ways this thinking has been applied to research questions across clinical trials and studies. Deb ends by introducing Health and Care Economics Cymru and how they can help you.