Sungwook Kim

I joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in March 2020.   I developed experience in health economic evaluations conducted alongside randomised controlled trials and decision models, and methodological research around infant care, preterm birth, and parenting.  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. I am the Health Economics Lead for the Prediction of Preterm Labour (PROPER) project, in collaboration with Imperial College London. I was an editorial board member of PLOS One and BMC Health services research. I serve on a regional committee for NIHR RfPB. I would like to hear from MSc students and potential Dphil/PhD candidates interested in health economics around infant and child health.

Research interests include:

• Methodological research in social deprivation, social equity and health policy evaluation 
• Infant and child health
• Mediation analysis
• Equity analysis
• Econometrics
• Economic evaluation

Current projects:

• SHIPS (Screening to improve Health In very Preterm infantS)
• OxPlus (Fetal growth restriction)
• E-PAtS (Early Positive Approaches to Support for children with intellectual disability)
• PROPER (Prediction of preterm labour)

Research grants:

• Leverhulme Trust research project grants: Identifying the causes of the causes for preterm birth (PI)
• NIHR SPCR (5-IV): COVID-19 and economic outcomes (PI)
• World Bank e-consultancy- OPTIMA (co-PI)
• PROPER (Prediction of preterm labour) (Oxford PI)