Matthew Franklin

My research has broadly focussed on estimating the comparative cost-effectiveness of different health and social care interventions using economic evaluation methods both within-study and for modelling-based analyses. I am particularly interested in the conduct of economic evaluations that use real-world data to support trials and observational studies. I have a keen interest in the philosophies of data science tasks, such as working out what we want to estimate, why, and to inform whom, and then working through if this is a description, prediction, or causal inference task. By understanding these philosophies, we can better work through the appropriate methods for the task at hand. I am particularly interested in tasks when causal inference is of interest, which is often the key interest in economic evaluation. My University of Sheffield staff page and publication list can be found here: https://sheffield.ac.uk/smph/matthew-franklin