Murong Yang

Murong Yang is a is a health economist specialising in health inequalities, with research interests in infectious diseases, child mental health and obesity. She also conducts research in behavioural economics, investigating how individual risk preferences influence health behaviours and decision-making. She holds a DPhil in Population Health from the University of Oxford.

Her current work applies econometric and epidemiological methods to investigate and explain disparities in infection incidence, treatment, and outcomes in UK primary care. She also conducts health economic analyses in low- and middle-income countries to quantify the health and economic burden of antimicrobial resistance, examine both inequalities and the potential impact of cost-effective interventions.