PhD Students
Michelle Yao
About:
Michelle Yao is a 2nd Year PhD student in Warwick Medical School.
Michelle's research is titled: Developing comprehensive Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessment of needs and estimation of expected health and economic outcomes in Ghana.
She is supervised by Dr Lazaros Andronis and Professor Olalekan Uthman.
Michelle's research seeks to produce coherent, evidence-based information on the value, opportunities and barriers to developing modern Emergency Ambulatory Services (EAS) infrastructure in Ghana. It explores the needs and expected benefits of such services and aims to inform policy through recommendations on ways to maximise returns (e.g. avoided maternal mortality, reduced inequality, enhanced productivity) from a given budget.
Shedding light on this area will urge developing healthcare systems to acknowledge, consider and account for the findings of this research. This research will also strives to provide literature that could be revolutionary in the development of EAS in other sub-Saharan African countries.
Education Background:
Undergraduate:
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Business and Law (First Class Honours), Coventry University, United Kingdom
Postgraduate:
Master of Science (MSc) in Healthcare Operational Management, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Contact: michelle.yao@warwick.ac.uk
Ruoxi Pan
About:
Ruoxi Pan is a PhD student in Health Economics in the Medical School at University of Warwick. Ruoxi will work on an interdisciplinary project that intersects economics/econometrics and health care. Through her PhD, Ruoxi will be looking to study and understand the factors that influence the health and healthcare-seeking decisions Chinese middle-aged and older people make. Additional questions will focus on what type of factors exert the greatest influence on utilisation in general and utilisation of specific services. Findings of this PhD are expected to offer insights into the determinants of health care service utilisation in middle-aged and elderly Chinese. Such insights are a prerequisite to formulating and initiating policy responses to ensure the viability of the Chinese health care system.
Education Background:
Undergraduate:
Bachelor of Economics, School of Economics, Sichuan University, China.
Postgraduate:
Master of Science (MSc) in International Health Policy (Health Economics), Department of Health Policy, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom.