Kenny Lawson

Kenny is an “Early Career Researcher” in the Institute of Health and Well-Being, and in June 2011 he took up a jointly-funded post from the University of Glasgow and the MRC’s Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU). This role will seek to develop generic methods for the economic evaluation of population health interventions, a new area for economics; and also assess the value-for-money of key policy initiatives. Current projects include housing and regeneration interventions (GoWell) and the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The latter will apply the recently created Scottish CVD Policy Model, which was built over the previous two years and funded by the Chief Scientist Office. 

Prior to academia, Kenny worked across a wide range of applied areas in economics and in different institutions, including Government (environment and rural development), Banking (Royal Bank of Scotland), International Development (e.g. Tanzania, Bangladesh) and macroeconomic consultancy (Oxford Economics).

Kenny holds a BA(Hons) in Economics and an MSc in Health Economics. In addition to his day-to-day role he is also writing-up his PhD thesis. This is concerned with the economic evaluation of interventions to prevent cardiovascular disease.