Sarkis Manoukian is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics working primarily in the area of Economic Evaluation and Social Science Data Analysis.
Prior to working at Glasgow Caledonian University, he has taught Economics and Statistics at the departments of Economics at the University of Bristol and the University of Essex. While at the University of Essex, he completed a PhD in Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. For his PhD, Sarkis analysed large household panel data in the UK and the US to study the determinants of individual economic decisions in the labour market, education and health.
His research interests are mainly in the area of applied microeconometrics; including economic evaluation, decision analytic modelling, the economics of healthcare-associated infections, labour market behaviour, housing economics, educational attainment and psychological wellbeing.
Sarkis has worked as an economist in numerous clinical trials and the Evaluation of Cost of Nosocomial Infection (ECONI) project, which investigated the cost and impact of Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) in Scotland. Recently he has been leading the social data analysis aspect of the Common Health Assets project
Sarkis has led in designing funding bids that have received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Sarkis has published in high quality peer-reviewed academic journals. He is also a reviewer in several academic journals and NIHR.
Sarkis is available to supervise students interested in health economics and specifically in the techniques of economic evaluation, computer simulations, health technology assessment, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and analyses of big data for health research.