Professor David Parkin is Chief Economist at NHS South East Coast. Before joining the NHS, David was a professor in the Economics Department at City University London. Earlier posts included 15 years in the academic Public Health department at Newcastle University and health economics research posts in Aberdeen and Manchester.

David has taught health economics in many places, to many different types of student and at many levels. He is joint author, with Stephen Morris and Nancy Devlin, of a popular textbook on health economics, ‘Economic Analysis in Health Care’, published by Wiley. His research interests are broad, but in particular include health measurement, priority setting and efficiency measurement. But his current role is to develop, promote and support economics thinking and analysis throughout the South East Coast region.