Researcher profile

Andrew David Street

Andrew Street is Professor of Health Economics and Head of the Department of Health Policy at the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics, which he joined in September 2017. Previously he was at the University of York where he was Director of the Health Policy team in the Centre for Health Economics and Director of the Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit (ESHCRU). He has worked on secondment for health ministries in Australia (1993) and England (2005), and has served as editor of the Journal of Health Economics (2006-2018), board member of the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Commissioning Board (2010-2017) and the Research Council of Norway’s Health and Care Services Board (2011-2013), and as specialist advisor to the House of Commons Health & Care Committee for budget related inquiries (2016-2019). Andrew has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles on topics including health system productivity, hospital efficiency, hospital payment arrangements and DRG-funding, organisational performance measurement, patient reported outcomes, integrated health and social care, frailty assessment of older people, and econometric analyses of variation among patients in costs, length of stay and outcomes.