Richard Cookson

Richard Cookson is a Professor at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York (primary affiliation) and holds a Visiting Professor title at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Adjunct). His expertise spans health inequality, long-term childhood policy analysis, and distributional cost-effectiveness methods. He has advised UK governmental bodies including the NHS Resource Allocation Committee (2018-21) and contributed to WHO working groups.

Education: PhD in Economics from the University of York (1998).

Research Interests: Cookson’s work focuses on equitable healthcare evaluation, including distributional cost-effectiveness analysis and microsimulation models for childhood policy. He explores how interventions impact social inequalities in health. His methods address public concern for reducing health inequities and long-term health system planning.

Grants & Advising: He co-directs the Equity in Health Policy (Equipol) Research Group at York. Administrative roles include Honorary Public Health Academic at the UK Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (2015–present) and short-term consulting for Thailand’s Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP).

Labs/Teams: Co-Director of the Equipol Research Group, focusing on equity-informative methods in health policy analysis.