Professor Stephen Morris

Stephen Morris is the RAND Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge. He is Head of the Primary Care Unit (PCU), Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR), Deputy Director of NIHR ARC East of England and Professorial Fellow in Health Services Research at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He is an experienced health economist, having completed his PhD in economics in 2002. He worked previously at University College London (where he was Professor of Health Economics), Brunel University London (Reader), Imperial College London (Senior lecturer) and City University London (Lecturer), and has sat on major committees at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. Professor Morris has authored over 280 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, the majority of which have been economic analyses, and a major health economics textbook. His research interests are primarily in the cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve health across a range of intervention types, disease areas and population groups, and the determinants of health service use. He also has interests and expertise in undertaking discrete choice experiments to measure preferences, and econometric analyses of large datasets, including Hospital Episode Statistics and the Health Survey for England. He is currently co-leading research funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme to investigate coordinated care for rare diseases (the CONCORD2 Study), by the NIHR Public Health Programme to evaluate the health and wellbeing effects of the HS2 train line (the WISH2 Study), and by the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research programme to improve uptake of pulmonary rehabilitation (the UPTURN Programme).