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Marc Suhrcke
Honorary Professor

Biography

Marc Suhrcke heads the cross-departmental Research Programme on ‘Health and Health Systems’ at LISER and is an affiliated Professor with the University of Luxembourg. Until recently, he was a Professor of Global Health Economics at the Centre for Health Economics  at the University of York.

Career

His preceding positions include Professor for Public Health Economics at the University of East Anglia, UK, as well as various research positions with the World Health Organization, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, the University of Hamburg, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), the European Commission (Brussels), and the Hamburg Institute for International Economics.

His research revolves around a wide range of health economic aspects, including the socio-economic determinants and consequences of health and health inequalities, as well as the evaluation of the impact of population-and system-level policies on health and related outcomes. Most of his work seeks to use observational data to uncover relevant, ideally causal relationships.

His work has been funded by the World Bank, WHO, the European Commission, DFID, the Department of Health (England), the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the NIHR, the MRC, the ESRC, the Gates Foundation, the Newton Fund, and others. 

Among other current roles, Marc is an Honorary Professor with the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, an Honorary Professorial Fellow with the Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia, an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge, a member of the WHO Europe’s Scientific Expert Advisory Group on Health Equity, its Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural and Cultural Insights, and its New Economics Alliance.

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Marc Suhrcke
Honorary Professor
Centre for Health Economics