Biography
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).
Research
Health economics, health services research
Publications
Capocci SJ, Sewell J, Smith C, Cropley I, Bhagani S, Solamalai A, Morris S, Abubakar I, Johnson MA, Lipman MCI. Cost effectiveness of testing HIV infected individuals for TB in a low TB/HIV setting. J Infect. 2020 Aug;81(2):289-296. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.055.
Callender T, Emberton M, Morris S, Pharoah PDP, Pashayan N. Benefit, Harm, and Cost-effectiveness Associated With Magnetic Resonance Imaging Before Biopsy in Age-based and Risk-stratified Screening for Prostate Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e2037657. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.37657.
Swart, N., Maroni, R., Muldrew, B., Sasieni, P., Fitzgerald, R. C., & Morris, S. (2021). Economic evaluation of Cytosponge®-trefoil factor 3 for Barrett esophagus: A cost-utility analysis of randomised controlled trial data. EClinicalMedicine, 37. doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100969.
Ahern AL, Breeze P, Fusco F, Sharp SJ, Islam N, Wheeler GM, Hill AJ, Hughes CA, Duschinsky R, Thomas C, Bates S, Woolston J, Stubbings M, Whittle F, Boothby C, Bostock J, Jebb S, Aveyard P, Boyland E, Halford JCG, Morris S, Brennan A, Griffin SJ. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of referral to a commercial open group behavioural weight management programme in adults with overweight and obesity: 5-year follow-up of the WRAP randomised controlled trial. Lancet Public Health. 2022 Oct;7(10):e866-e875. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00226-2.
For a full list of publications, please see https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=f89sVvYAAAAJ&hl=en
Teaching and Supervisions
Module leader for the Health Economics module on the MPhil in Population Health Sciences: https://www.phs.group.cam.ac.uk/mphil-population-health-sciences/
I currently supervise five PhD students: Owain Jones. The application of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) algorithms to the early detection of skin cancers in primary care clinical settings. Viviana Orena. Widening access to exercise and pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Qin Xi. Economic analysis of predictive genetic and genomic testing for breast and ovarian cancer. Diar Fattah. Advancing HTA policy and health economic modelling adaptations for rare disease: a mixed-methods approach. Hanan Alsubaie. Impact of obesity on labour market outcomes.
Other Professional Activities
Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research: https://www.cchsr.phpc.cam.ac.uk/index.php/about/ Deputy Director, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East of England: https://arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/ Professorial Fellow in Health Services Research, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge: https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/