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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1967 - Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Richard Cookson is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research spans significant fields including Health Professions and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a particular focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, and Epidemiology. The main topics covered in their work address health disparities and outcomes, economic evaluations of health systems, and healthcare policy and management.

They have contributed to a variety of journals, frequently publishing in venues such as Health Economics and Value in Health, as well as presenting work at the SSM Annual Scientific Meeting. Other notable publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and PLoS ONE.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard Cookson include:

  • Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Comes of Age, 2020, Value in Health
  • Development of a checklist to guide equity considerations in health technology assessment, 2021, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions, 2023, Health Economics
  • Understanding the relationship between income and mental health among 16- to 24-year-olds: Analysis of 10 waves (2009-2020) of Understanding Society to enable modelling of income interventions, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Estimating Social Variation in the Health Effects of Changes in Health Care Expenditure, 2020, Medical Decision Making

Richard Cookson's frequent collaborators include Ieva Skarda, Miqdad Asaria, Sarah Sowden, Tim Doran, and David Bishai. These partnerships have produced multiple publications reflecting shared research interests.

In addition to articles, Richard Cookson has a book publication titled Prioritarianism in Practice (2022), published by Cambridge University Press.

Their scholarly work often centers on topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices

Research dissemination primarily occurs through well-regarded journals frequently associated with health economics and policy fields. The range of highly cited publications indicates ongoing contributions to the understanding of health inequalities and economic assessments of health interventions.

Richard Cookson's academic output reflects expertise in both health-related social sciences and quantitative economic methodologies, evidencing engagement across multidisciplinary domains relevant to public health decision-making.

Best Publications

  • Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review

    Rebecca Masters;Elspeth Anwar;Brendan Collins;Richard Andrew Cookson

  • Methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions: key challenges and recommendations.

    Helen Weatherly;Michael Drummond;Karl Claxton;Richard Cookson

  • Principles of justice in health care rationing

    Richard Cookson;Paul Dolan

  • Framing Effects in Public Goods Experiments

    R. Cookson

  • Effect of discussion and deliberation on the public's views of priority setting in health care: focus group study.

    Paul Dolan;Richard Cookson;Brian Ferguson

  • Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Address Health Equity Concerns

    Richard Cookson;Andrew J. Mirelman;Susan Griffin;Miqdad Asaria

  • Equity in health

    Alan Williams;Richard Cookson

  • Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis: a tutorial

    Miqdad Asaria;Susan Griffin;Richard Cookson

  • Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health Care in England

    Richard Andrew Cookson;Carol Propper;Miqdad Asaria;Rosalind Raine

  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Induction of Labour full guidance published by the RCOG. RCOG Clinical Effectiveness Support Unit, London

    RA Cookson

  • Explicit incorporation of equity considerations into economic evaluation of public health interventions.

    Richard Cookson;Mike Drummond;Helen Weatherly

  • Willingness to pay methods in health care: a sceptical view

    Richard Cookson

  • Public healthcare resource allocation and the Rule of Rescue

    R Cookson;C McCabe;A Tsuchiya

  • Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage: Final report of the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage

    Ole Norheim;Trygve Ottersen;Frehowot Berhane;Bonah Chitah

  • CONSORT-Equity 2017 extension and elaboration for better reporting of health equity in randomised trials.

    Vivian A Welch;Ole F Norheim;Ole F Norheim;Janet Jull;Richard Cookson

  • Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): The inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis

    Ole Frithjof Norheim;Rob Baltussen;Mira Johri;Dan Chisholm

  • Public views on health care rationing: a group discussion study.

    Richard Cookson;Paul Dolan

  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The Use of Electronic Fetal Monitoring full guidance published by the RCOG. RCOG Clinical Effectiveness Support Unit, London

    RA Cookson

  • Socioeconomic inequality of access to healthcare: Does choice explain the gradient?

    Giuseppe Moscelli;Luigi Siciliani;Nils Gutacker;Richard Andrew Cookson

  • QALYs and the capability approach

    Richard Cookson

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in health care in England

    Richard Cookson;Carol Propper;Miqdad Asaria;Rosalind Raine

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
David McDaid
David McDaid London School of Economics and Political Science
Alan Maynard
Alan Maynard University of York
Amanda Howe
Amanda Howe University of East Anglia
Karl Claxton
Karl Claxton University of York
Luigi Siciliani
Luigi Siciliani University of York
Norman Daniels
Norman Daniels Harvard University
Michael Drummond
Michael Drummond University of York
Stéphane Verguet
Stéphane Verguet Harvard University
Matt Sutton
Matt Sutton University of Manchester

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