Sarkis Manoukian
Research Fellow
Glasgow Caledonian University
Prior to working at Glasgow Caledonian University, Sarkis taught economics at the Department of Economics, University of Bristol and the Department of Economics, 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 well-being.
Sarkis has worked as an economist in numerous clinical trials including the TOPSY, AMBER, TREAT-UI and CRIB trials. Sarkis has also worked as an economist in the ECONI project which focused on healthcare associated infections in Scotland.
Sarkis has published in high quality peer-reviewed academic journals. He is also a reviewer in several academic journals and has reviewed for public funding bodies such as the National Institute for Health Research.
Sarkis is the module leader of the “Health Economics” module which is a core module in the Master of Public Health offered by the School of Health and Life Sciences https://www.gcu.ac.uk/study/courses/details/index.php/P03209/Master_of_Public_Health/
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.