Rate My Professor James Lomas

Dr James Lomas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of York in 2015. Prior to his current role, Lomas served as a Research Fellow at the University's Centre for Health Economics and held a Royal Economic Society Junior Fellowship in 2013. His career has been centered within the University of York, where he has progressed through research and lecturing positions in economics.

Lomas's research focuses on applied microeconometric analysis in the context of economic evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis, particularly estimating the marginal productivity of health care systems, pharmaceutical pricing, and methods to inform decision-making at local, national, and global levels. Key publications include 'Cost per DALY Averted Thresholds for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country Data' (2015, with J.M. Ochalek and K.P. Claxton), 'Resolving the "Cost-Effective but Unaffordable" Paradox' (2018), 'Estimating the Marginal Productivity of the English National Health Service from 2003 to 2012' (2019), 'Healthcare Cost Regressions: Going Beyond the Mean to Estimate the Full Distribution' (2015, with A.M. Jones and N. Rice), 'Accounting for Country- and Time-Specific Values in the Economic Evaluation of Health-Related Projects Relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries' (2022), and 'Do the Poor Gain More? The Impact of Secondary-Care Expenditure on Health Inequality' (2025, with M. Anaya-Montes et al.). In 2016, Lomas, along with Andrew Jones and Nigel Rice, received the inaugural Willard G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics from the American Society of Health Economists for their work on healthcare cost regressions. He teaches postgraduate modules including Evaluation of Health Care, Clinical Decision Analysis, and Outcome Measurement and Valuation. Lomas has contributed to public discussions, such as at the York Festival of Ideas, and delivered seminars on health opportunity costs.