Professor Subhash Pokhrel
Head of Department - Clinical Sciences
Mary Seacole 3012d
- Email: subhash.pokhrel@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268745
Summary
Subhash is a professor of health economics and currently the Head of Department of Clinical Sciences and the Leader of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG).
Subhash's research has contributed to several public health policies. The suite of NICE Public Health ROI Tools – which provided the basis for many public health investment decisions in England - was informed by the work on tobacco control led by Subhash. The ROI tools are practical, customisable models to help make real-world decisions in context of local government decision-making.
Economic arguments are needed to make the business case for public health investments. Subhash led the roll out of ROI work to several European nations through a €2 million multi-centre European Commission funded study, EQUIPT. He has been the coordinator of a large scale inter-disciplinary collaboration of national and international expertise. Subhash is the lead author of a book, ROI in Public Health Policy: Supporting Decision Making (Palgrave Macmillan).
Subhash’s work in public health research has been as diverse as the discipline itself – from developing a household decision making pathway for child health care in low- and middle income countries (LMICs) to quantifying the economic impact of breastfeeding promotion in industrialised countries; from evaluating health insurance for its population health impact in LMICs to finding out what interventions improve physical activity globally.
Subhash is intrigued by the following question: In LMICs and industrialised countries, what works to improve population health outcomes and at what cost?
Responsibility
Head, Department of Clinical Sciences
Leader, Health Economics Research Group (HERG)
Module Lead: Economic Evaluation in Human Genomics in MSc Genomic Medicine (Imperial College London)
Lead, European-study on quanitfying utility of investment in protection from tobacco (EQUIPT)
Newest selected publications
Vargas-Martínez, AM., Trapero-Bertran, M., Lima-Serrano, M., Anokye, N., Pokhrel, S. and Mora, T. (2019) 'Measuring the effects on quality of life and alcohol consumption of a program to reduce binge drinking in Spanish adolescents'. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 208 (1 December 2019). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0376-8716 Open Access Link
Siddiqi, K., Islam, Z., Khan, Z., Siddiqui, MF., Mishu, MP., Dogar, OF., et al. (2019) 'Identification of policy priorities to address the burden of smokeless tobacco in Pakistan: a multi-method analysis'. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. pp. 1 - 4. ISSN: 1462-2203 Open Access Link
Borst, RAJ., Kok, MO., O’Shea, AJ., Pokhrel, S., Jones, TH. and Boaz, A. (2019) 'Envisioning and shaping translation of knowledge into action: a comparative case-study of stakeholder engagement in the development of a European tobacco control tool'. Health Policy, 123 (10). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 0168-8510 Open Access Link
Ranasinghe, P., Pokhrel, S. and Anokye, N. (2019) 'The economics of physical activity in low and middle income countries: protocol for a systematic review'. BMJ Open, 9 (1). pp. e022686 - e022686. ISSN: 2044-6055 Open Access Link
Pokhrel, S., Owen, L., Coyle, K. and Coyle, D. (2018) 'Where’s Next for Public Health ROI Research?', inROI in Public Health Policy: Supporting Decision Making. Palgrave Pivot. pp. 159 - 169.