Steve Parrott
Reader in Health Economics

Research

Overview

Steve's research interests are in health economics, the economic evaluation of addiction and alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs.

Projects

• Helping people cope with temptations to smoke to reduce relapse
• ADVANCE: Advancing theory and treatment approaches for males in substance misuse treatment who perpetrate intimate partner violence
• Start2Quit: Smoking cessation using taster sessions
• Quadrupling inhaled steroid to prevent asthma
• A randomised trial of nicotine patch preloading for smoking cessation
• (with Mental Health team)
• SCIMITAR (with Mental Health team)
• BINGO - Improving the effectiveness and reach of NHS support for smoking cessation in pregnancy
• Passive Smoking - new approaches to cessation service delivery
• UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS)

Watch Steve talk about the economics of tobacco on a recent clip from the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies 

• SNAP - The Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy Trial
• CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber : Mental Health and Comorbidity Theme
• Children Learning About Second-hand Smoke (CLASS II): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
• Tobacco cessation within TB programmes: A 'real world' solution for countries with dual burden of disease
• A multi component intervention to reduce home-exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy and postnatal period
• HAMLET - A multicentre, two-arm, non-blinded, pragmatic, parallel group, randomised controlled superiority trial assessing the clinical and cost effectiveness of Through Knee Amputation (TKA) compared to Above Knee Amputation (AKA) in patients requiring major lower limb amputations (MMLA), but who are unsuitable for a Below Knee Amputation (BKA).

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Available PhD research projects

• Alcohol Interventions and Mental Health Populations
• Economic Evaluation and Addiction

Supervision

Steve is keen to supervise PhDs in the following areas: effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of smoking, drinking and illicit drug interventions.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Health Economics Module 

Publications

Full publications list

• Steve Parrott's publications