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Jon Sussex

Chief Economist
Cambridge Office

Education

M.A. in economics, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in health economics, University of York

Overview

Jon Sussex is chief economist at RAND Europe and co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (a collaboration between RAND Europe and the Insitute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge). He has over 25 years of experience in consultancy and research of health sector policy and economics in the UK and internationally. He has published on a wide range of topics in this field, including on the impact of competition and other forms of incentives in the NHS, the role of the private sector in tax-funded healthcare, quantifying spillovers and time lags in medical research, and the regulation of medicine prices. Before joining RAND Europe, Sussex was deputy director of the Office of Health Economics (London), a management consultant at Deloitte and Touche, and health economic adviser at HM Treasury.

Research Focus

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR); Honorary Visiting Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York; Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge

Commentary

  • A lab microscope

    Public Funding of Medical Research Pays for Itself

    Public and charity spending on medical research in the UK stimulates the private sector to spend more on R&D, not less. Each pound of public funding leads to an additional 99 pence investment from the private sector.

    Apr 27, 2016 The RAND Blog

  • Blog

    Research Funding and Economic Growth

    Publicly funded R&D investment is a coherent policy to support long term economic growth. Our only note of caution is about how far and how fast that growth can be delivered because the evidence we have is out of date and skewed towards the experience of just one country, write Jonathan Grant and Jon Sussex.

    Nov 29, 2011 Research Fortnight

Publications