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HEAL TH EC ONOMICS RESEARCH UNIT

The Health Economics Research Unit (HERU)

was established at the University of Aberdeen
in 1977. The Unit is part of the Institute of
Applied Health Sciences (IAHS) in the School

of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
within the College of Life Sciences and
Medicine.

Core funding for the Unit comes from the Chief Scientist
Office (CSO), part of the Scottish Government Health and
Social Care Directorates and the University of Aberdeen.
HERU is one of two CSO-funded research units based within
the IAHS. Our sister unit is the Health Services Research Unit
(HSRU).

The CSO remit for the Health Economics Research Unit
requires HERU to “develop and encourage the application
of appropriate economic methods to improve health and
healthcare in Scotland” and is pursued through four Research
Themes. More specifically, our aim is to:
• • Research economic approaches to health and
healthcare at standards of international excellence.
designed & produced by XIC.com | +44 (0)1224 878799 • • improve healthcare and population health in
Develop and apply economic techniques to

Scotland.

Make available to the health service a body
of expertise in health economics.

Build and sustain capacity in the economics
of health.

HERU is supported by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the
Scottish Government Health & Social Care Directorates (SGHSC)