Healthcare and ill health costs are major challenges for all countries. Healthcare expenditure is growing approximately 1% faster than the GDP of most nations, and so is absorbing an ever-increasing share of national incomes. In 2017 the economic cost of ill health globally was over $12 trillion, or 15% of global GDP, and over 860 million life years were lived with disability due to ill health. 

Better management practice is believed to be central to tackling many of these challenges. However, there is a lack of clarity as to which management practices to deploy and what performance and outcomes benefits can be anticipated from better management.

Stephen is conducting research into the links between the management practices of Healthcare Payors and the outcomes they achieve for their managed populations. He is investigating: 1) what management practices (if any) deliver better population health outcomes; 2) what benefits can better management practice deliver; and 3) what interventions can healthcare system policymakers take to improve quality, cost, productivity, and outcomes.

An Advisor, CEO and Board Member with over 20 years’ experience, Stephen has worked with the executive and board teams of leading industrial and healthcare organisations around the globe. 25 years ago, he earned a PhD in Engineering from University College Dublin. He also has a Master’s degree in Management from Harvard. It is hoped the insights from his research at LSHTM will help European and other higher-income nations to capture some of the €3 trillion in welfare gains, and 14 million in additional healthy life-years, possible for citizens by 2040.