Steve’s research interests are primarily in the cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve health across a range of disease areas and population groups, and the determinants of health service use. He has written several papers on the economics of obesity, and has interests and expertise in undertaking econometric analyses of large datasets including Hospital Episode Statistics and the Health Survey for England. With David Parkin, Nancy Devlin and Anne Spencer he wrote Economic Analysis in Health Care, currently published in its second edition. Steve is the joint national organiser of the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) and runs the HESG email distribution list. He sits on a Public Health Advisory Committee at NICE and the NIHR Public Health Research Programme Research Funding Board.