Professor Joanna Coast
BA(York), M.Sc.(York), Ph.D.(Bristol)
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Current positions
Professor in the Economics of Health and Care
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Jo's research interests lie in the theory underlying economic evaluation (including capability), developing broader measures of outcome for use in economic evaluation (including measures of capability, particularly the ICECAP suite of meaures), health care decision making (including priority setting), the economics of antimicrobial resistance and economic analysis of the organisation of care, particularly end of life care. She currently holds a Wellcome Investigator Award to develop a life-course approach to measuring capability for economic evaluation of health and social care interventions, which also incorporates the development of ICECAP measures for children and young people. Jo also has a methodological interest in the use of qualitative methods in health economics and is recognised as an international authority in this field; her edited book on Qualitative Methods for Health Economics was published in July 2017. She has published extensively in all of these areas.
Jo co-directs the new MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy Analysis which began in September 2023. She has supervised 16 doctoral students to completion, and is currently supervising six doctoral students in areas including health care decision making, the capability approach, and end of life.
Jo is Senior Editor, Health Economics for Social Science & Medicine, and a Non-Executive Director for One Gloucestershire Integrated Care System, for which she chairs the System Resource Committee. She was the Chair of the Scientific Committee for the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Congress (online) in 2021 and co-chair for the Congress (Basel) in 2019.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Using qualitative and mixed methods in health economics
Principal Investigator
Description
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Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
22/02/2016 to 31/07/2016
Thesis supervisions
The use of the results from economic evaluation in applied decision-making in the UK health service
Supervisors
Care at the end of life
Supervisors
Face-to-face priority-setting in primary care
Supervisors
Understanding the treatment preferences of older patients deciding between dialysis and conservative kidney management
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
23/05/2024How do older people with advanced kidney disease and their family members approach kidney treatment decision-making? A qualitative study
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Is well-becoming important for children and young people? Evidence from in-depth interviews with children and young people, and their parents
Quality of Life Research
Key insights into developing qualitative concept elicitation work for outcome measures with children and young people
Patient
Making recommendations to subsidize new health technologies in Australia
Health Policy
Older Patients’ Preferences for Kidney Failure Treatments: A Choice Experiment
Kidney International