Dr. Patrick Fahr

Biography

Patrick Fahr is a senior health economist at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. He began his research career as a doctoral student, completing a DPhil in Health Economics at the Nuffield Department of Population Health. His thesis focused on the challenges of using biomedical big data for health economic analyses in the context of rare genetic diseases and genome-based diagnostic technologies while working on the Genomic England's 100,000 Genomes Project. After finishing his DPhil, Patrick joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences to lead the health economics work for the Oxford Martin Future of Cooling Programme. His ongoing research explores the impact of suboptimal temperature exposure on healthcare resource utilization and associated costs through observational data and econometric analyses. He is a member of both the Medical Statistics Group and the Health Economics Policy Evaluation Group, and is also involved in teaching across various graduate programmes in the Department. Additionally, Patrick has served as a consultant for organizations such as Genomics England, the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank Group.

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