{"id":721,"date":"2019-09-18T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/?p=721"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:49:39","slug":"guest-blog-work-experience-in-kings-health-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn-students\/2019\/09\/18\/guest-blog-work-experience-in-kings-health-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog: Work Experience in King\u2019s Health Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before starting my work experience in King\u2019s Health Economics<\/a>, I had very little idea what health economics actually was, let alone what kind of work a health economist would do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never really known what career path I would follow but I\u2019ve always had an interest in both statistics and healthcare, so health economics seemed like a good option. Health economics essentially looks at the efficiency and efficacy of health and healthcare. The role of health economists is to conduct economic evaluations of healthcare programmes and policies, so the costs involved can be understood and the cost-effectiveness can be measured.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m studying Maths and Statistics at the University of Bath and have just finished my first year. I was looking for work experience that could help me figure out what to do during my placement year, which is in the third year of my degree. After sending out what felt like countless emails a few months before, I was lucky enough to be given this opportunity to work at King\u2019s. I was put in touch with Poushali Ganguli, a research associate and part-time PhD student, and a few months later I started my summer holiday by spending three weeks in the David Goldberg Centre at the King\u2019s Denmark Hill campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n