Ji Hee Youn

Postgraduate Research Student

School of Health and Related Research
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Email:jihee.youn@sheffield.ac.uk

Title of Research

Modelling Health and Health Services for an aging population.

University of Sheffield White Rose Scholarship

Biography

I started my PhD at ScHARR in October 2011. Before joining ScHARR, I worked as a health economist from January 2009 at Health Economics Research Group (HERG) and Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH) based in Brunel University. The research projects included the development of Bayesian modelling techniques for early economic evaluation of medical devices and integrated programming methods for economic evaluation and value of information analysis using R and WinBUGS.
I completed my MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics) at the London School of Economics (LSE) after studying economics (B.A. major; cum laude) and applied statistics (M.A. on leave; B.A. minor) at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
I also have experience of performing actuarial evaluation in the financial industry and teaching introductory statistics to undergraduate students.

Current projects

My PhD is on modelling the impact of population ageing on healthcare demand for efficient planning of healthcare resources, and developing a holistic framework including all relevant factors to predict the effect of ageing on healthcare demand.

Research Interests

My research interests include the use of Bayesian statistics in decision analytical modelling, dynamic simulation modelling, economics of ageing, long term care, and impact of technological developments on healthcare demand.