Professor Alistair McGuire

Professor Alistair McGuire is the Kuwait Chair of Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy. Prior to this he was Professor of Economics at City University, London after being a tutor in Economics at the University of Oxford. Professor McGuire has also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, the University of Sydney, the University of York, the Universitat of Barcelona and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona.

Professor McGuire is the research lead for the Partnership of Health System Sustainability and Resilience, a non-profit, global collaboration aiming to improve global health (www.phssr.org).

He has acted as an advisor to a number of governments and governmental bodies, including the United Kingdom government, the UK Competition Commission, the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), the German Institut fur Qualität Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG), as well as for a number of international bodies (including the World Bank, the WHO, and the IMF) and pharmaceutical and health care insurance companies.

Professor McGuire has pursued an interest in the economics of health care for over thirty years. His research covers several topics in health economics, including international comparisons, economics of the hospital, public/private sector interface, cost-effectiveness analysis of health technologies, and health economics alongside clinical trials. He has extensive teaching experience and has written numerous books, articles and reports on the subject. He has been directly involved in several major clinical trials as the lead health economist.

Named Chair

Kuwait Chair in Health Economics

Teaching

HP423 Advanced Health Economics
HP4A4E Health Economics

Publications

See here.

Expertise

comparative effectiveness research, cost-effectiveness analysis, economic evaluation, pharmaeconomics, health economics, health services research