Dr Patricia Norwood

Biography

Patrícia Norwood holds a honours degree and a master in Economics and a PhD in Health Economics. Patrícia is currently an Advanced Research Fellow in HERU and works mainly on projects within the Health Behaviour theme. Current research interests focus on use of economics in health improvement and the undertaking of microeconometric analysis of interventions to reduce health inequalities, particularly relating to the impact of individual lifestyle choices such as diet on health outcomes. 

Funding and Grants

April 2022-27  Principal investigator (PI) for “RI-B5-08: Understanding public attitudes and preferences for healthy and sustainable diets”, financed by RESAS, £761,811.9

 August 2019- Feb 2020   “Economic Modelling: reducing health harms of foods high in fat, sugar and salt, financed by the Scottish Government, £16,341

March 2017-August 2017   “Diet Big Number Research: A review of the costs of overweight, obesity and diet related illness for Scotland, and critical appraisal of the cost-effectiveness evidence base for population wide interventions to reduce overweight, obesity and diet related illness”, financed by the FSS, £49,985

Sep 2012-Sep 2015  “What do patients want from Primary Care Services?”, financed by the Portuguese Ministry of Health, €18,580

Teaching Responsibilities

2015 to present

Course coordinator for “Health Economics”, MSc Public Health, MSc Global Health and Management, MSc Health Data Science