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Julia Fox-Rushby

Professor Julia Fox-Rushby

Professor of Health Economics

Research interests

  • Economics

Biography

Leads Health Economics for:

Department of Population Health Sciences

Biomedical Research Centre

Papworth Trials Unit Collaboration 

Prior to joining Kings College London in 2017, Julia was Professor and Director of the Health Economics Research Group at Brunel University London, and Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Over the past 30 years, her policy-driven research in economic evaluation has sought to provide high quality evidence on the efficiency of investing in improvements to health and wellbeing. It includes:

Applied research, alongside clinical trials, quasi-experimental and observational studies, including:
A wide range of public health interventions (e.g. physical activity, breastfeeding, childhood vaccines, malaria control)
Cardio-thoracic surgery (e.g. MESOVATS, Ministern, AMAZE & TOMADO Trials)

Methodological research:
Development of quality of life measures and translation methodology (EuroQol, KenQol)
Development, testing and use of willingness to pay measures
Optimising screening/treatment decisions e.g. in a geographical space using cost-effectiveness modelling, introducing genomic-guided therapies

She has served on the NHIR Trainees Career Fellowship Panel, the HTA Clinical Trials Board, NICE advisory committees, INCLEN Programme Committee and currently sits on the NIHR Public Health Research funding panel.

Her teaching includes supervision of doctoral students, short-course introductions to economic evaluation and more in-depth introductions to health economics and economic evaluation within MSc courses. Her reprinted textbook with Professor Cairns, “Economic Evaluation (Understanding Public Health)”, supports teaching in several countries.  

    Research

    OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE)

    ORACLE aims to improve outcomes for children & young people experiencing Adverse Childhood Experiences by informing policy in health, social care and education.

    Project status: Ongoing

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    Health Economics for Life Sciences and Medicine (HELM)

    Health Economics for Life Sciences and Medicine aims to improve population health and well-being through rigorous, applied, policy-relevant research in health economics, continuous reflection on, and advancement of, methodology, and inspiring, teaching and enabling others to include economics early and often in decisions concerning population health

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    Stroke Research Group

    We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.

    Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data

    We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    Study shows advanced staged cancer patients value quality of life up to three times more than survival

    Researchers found patients assigned significantly higher value to palliative care services supporting physical functioning and pain management

    cancer - main

    Study reveals urgent need for stroke prevention and care strategies in Sierra Leone

    The research into common risk factors for stroke, type of stroke and outcomes of stroke in Sierra Leone uncovers a need for improved stroke care in the region

    Zainab SISLE test patients blurred

    Paper by King's researchers makes Readers' Choice List 2021

    The article was selected as one of The Pharmacogenomics Journal’s 15 most cited or shared articles in 2021.

    Blood testing

    Features

    Health and self for 2020

    Kick start your New Year’s resolutions with these top tips based on research from King's

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      Research

      OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE)

      ORACLE aims to improve outcomes for children & young people experiencing Adverse Childhood Experiences by informing policy in health, social care and education.

      Project status: Ongoing

      Public health  thumbnail
      Health Economics for Life Sciences and Medicine (HELM)

      Health Economics for Life Sciences and Medicine aims to improve population health and well-being through rigorous, applied, policy-relevant research in health economics, continuous reflection on, and advancement of, methodology, and inspiring, teaching and enabling others to include economics early and often in decisions concerning population health

      Stroke Research Group thumbnail 780×440
      Stroke Research Group

      We are a multidisciplinary group (epidemiologists, stroke physicians, GPs, social scientists, statisticians, health informaticians and health economists) focused on stroke and with a wider interest in vascular long-term conditions and analytics.

      Improving the lives of stroke survivors with data

      We aim to improve the lives of stroke survivors through a programme of stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis and modelling, and use in practice.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      Study shows advanced staged cancer patients value quality of life up to three times more than survival

      Researchers found patients assigned significantly higher value to palliative care services supporting physical functioning and pain management

      cancer - main

      Study reveals urgent need for stroke prevention and care strategies in Sierra Leone

      The research into common risk factors for stroke, type of stroke and outcomes of stroke in Sierra Leone uncovers a need for improved stroke care in the region

      Zainab SISLE test patients blurred

      Paper by King's researchers makes Readers' Choice List 2021

      The article was selected as one of The Pharmacogenomics Journal’s 15 most cited or shared articles in 2021.

      Blood testing

      Features

      Health and self for 2020

      Kick start your New Year’s resolutions with these top tips based on research from King's

      health-tips banner