Toby Watt Lead Economist
Toby runs the health and care demand work for the REAL Centre: focusing on in depth econometric analysis of large data sets. In a new programme of work, in partnership with the University of Liverpool, we are developing a microsimulation model of health care demand. This will analyse trends in non-communicable disease, treatment and health care utilisation across the NHS. This model will include the ever changing inputs of population risk factors, health care technology, improvement in health care outcomes and multi-morbidity. Toby has developed expertise in the use of primary care data, primarily in the analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care utilisation using the patient level data. Under the Bloomsbury Colleges scholarship, Toby is completing a PhD part time on Public Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is analysing the impact of food and drink price promotions on population health. Toby worked in competition economics at a consultancy for two years before moving to the Health Foundation. He has been a tutor in econometrics for the MSc Economics course at Birkbeck, University of London. Toby gained a first in Economics from the University of Bristol and a distinction in the MSc Economics programme at University College London. |
Publications
Watt T, Charlesworth A, Gershlick B. (2019) Health and care spending and its value, past, present and future. Future Healthcare Journal, 6(2), 99-105. doi:10.7861/futurehosp.6-2-99
Watt, T., Beckert, W., Smith, R., & Cornelsen, L. (2020). Reducing consumption of unhealthy foods and beverages through banning price promotions: What is the evidence and will it work? Public Health Nutrition, 23(12), 2228-2233. doi:10.1017/S1368980019004956
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