Jesse Kigozi is a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Unit (HEU), University of Birmingham and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University. He is an experienced researcher in applied research concerning trial-based evaluations, particularly in the area of musculoskeletal disease. Jesse is the health economist on health economics research studies undertaken by the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University, as part of a formal collaboration between the HEU and Keele.
Jesse’s research portfolio also includes research centred on assessing and including productivity costs within economic evaluations; and the evaluation of workplace interventions directed at improving the health of workers.
He has published a number of applied economic evaluations and methodological research in journals such as Health Economics, European Journal of Health Economics, Pain, and PLoS medicine among others.
Jesse teaches health economics, particularly economic evaluation costing and analysis methodology, statistics, and healthcare financing and equity, to students in the HEU’s MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy and Health Economics and Econometrics programmes.