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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. I previously worked as an intern at the WHO’s European Office 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 using econometrics. 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. I am a health economics lead for the prediction of preterm labour (PROPER) project in collaboration with Imperial College London. I am an editorial board member of PLOS One and BMC Health services research.
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:
- Prediction of preterm labour (PROPER)
- COVID-19 and economic outcomes
- SHIPS (Screening to improve Health In very Preterm infantS)
- BARACK-D (Benefits of Aldosterone Receptor Antagonism in Chronic Kidney Disease)
- OxPlus
- E-PAtS
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)
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