Alexander Carter

Biography

Carter is a health economist in the Centre for Health Policy at the Institute of Global Health Innovation. His research focuses on the economic impact of quality improvement programs in the NHS and draws on methods used for the economic evaluation of health care programs, management and operational research methods. As part of the patient safety program, Alex's PhD aims to assess the economic impact of a nationwide patient safety initiative, the National Reporting and Learning System (or NRLS). His PhD is supervised by Professor the Lord Ara Darzi and Professor Elias Mossialos (LSE/Imperial). Alex's other academic interests include pharmaceutical economics and policy, the evaluation of eHealth and mobile health technologies, and the economic impact of surgical checklists used in care. Alex also co-leads the 'Health Systems and Policy' and 'Financing Healthcare' modules on the Masters in Health Policy and lectures on both. He also teaches quantitative analysis methods to undergraduate medical students at the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College. Prior to joining the Centre, Alex worked in the United States and Europe as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry and completed his Master's degree in health policy and economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a Master's degree in Applied Physiology from King's College London.

Research Interest

economics