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Sungwook Kim
Ph.D
Senior researcher in Health Economics
I joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in March 2020 where I focus on a programme of economic modelling on vaccination and immunisation evaluation, and emergency response, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Warwick. I previously worked as an intern at the WHO’s European Office, studying harm reduction interventions and as an e-consultant at the World Bank. More recently, I worked at the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Warwick where I developed experience in health economic evaluations conducted alongside randomised controlled trials and decision models, and methodological research around social deprivation, social equity and health policy evaluation. I hold a PhD in health economics from UCL. Currently I hold Leverhulme Trust research project grants for 2-year programme as a principal investigator - Identifying the causes of the causes for preterm birth.
Research interests include:
- Health economic evaluation
- Methodological research in social deprivation, social equity and health policy evaluation
- Infant and child health
- Mediation analysis
- Equity analysis
- Spatial analysis
Current projects:
- COVID-19 and economic outcomes
- MEMVIE 2 (Mathematical & Economic Modelling for Vaccination and Immunisation Evaluation)
- SHIPS (Screening to improve Health In very Preterm infantS)
- BARACK-D (Benefits of Aldosterone Receptor Antagonism in Chronic Kidney Disease)
- TORCH (Systematic review of the psychometric performance of generic childhood preference-based health-related quality of life measures
Research grants:
- Leverhulme Trust research project grants: Identifying the causes of the causes for preterm birth (PI; £116,035)
- NIHR SPCR (5-IV): COVID-19 and economic outcomes (PI; £41,886.00)
Recent publications
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Health-related quality of life of children born very preterm: a multinational European cohort study
Journal article
Kim SW. et al, (2022), Quality of Life Research
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High Healthcare Use at Age 5 Years in a European Cohort of Children Born Very Preterm
Journal article
Seppänen AV. et al, (2022), Journal of Pediatrics
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Economic costs at age five associated with very preterm birth: multinational European cohort study
Journal article
Kim SW. et al, (2021), Pediatric Research