Jake Hitch
DPhil Student
Jake is a DPhil student researching inequalities in the health-economic burden of infectious diseases, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. He is primarily investigating the relationship between household socioeconomic status and neonatal sepsis in Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and investigating to what extent disparities in neonatal outcomes are explained by disparities in antibiotic treatment linked to ability to pay.
Jake is also researching socioeconomic inequalities in the incidence, treatment and outcomes of urinary tract infections (cystitis) in Wales, moving beyond simply measuring their size, to understanding their drivers and modelling interventions aimed at reducing them.
Methodologically, Jake is interested in regression-based inequality measurement and decomposition, and distributional cost-effectiveness analysis.
Jake is an economist by training and sits within the Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care (IRAC) theme.