Dr Jamie O'Halloran

Senior research fellow

Jamie is a senior research fellow in the work and welfare state team.

Jamie’s expertise lies in health economics and quantitative analysis. He is working for the Commission on Prosperity and Health and is leading the workstream on Government, Business and People.

Prior to the IPPR, Jamie obtained his PhD in health economics from the University of Southern Denmark and has worked for the Department of Health and Social Care. He joins the IPPR from Pro Bono Economics, a think tank in the social sector space, where his work has been featured in the Guardian and the Financial Times.

Jamie’s areas of interest are:

  • Health inequalities
  • Labour market
  • Quantitative research methods

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  1. An unrecognisable woman playing a slot machine in a social club

    Reforming gambling taxation: How to lift half a million children out of poverty

    A key priority for the government’s upcoming child poverty strategy should be to remove the two-child limit and scrap the household benefit cap.
  2. Happy primary school kids, wearing school uniforms and backpacks, running on a walkway outside their school building

    Fixing the foundations: The case for investing in children's health

    For decades, governments of all stripes have promised to give children a better, healthier start to life. But despite this – and some notable policy successes – the UK continues to fall short on childhood health outcomes. 
  3. A toddler in a red shirt plays with a wooden toy train with the numbers 3,2,4 on it

    The childcare challenge: How can the new government deliver a real childcare guarantee?

    Can we reimagine childcare as a proper public service?

  4. Our greatest asset: The final report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity

    The nation’s health challenges have reached historic proportions, and change is needed.
  5. A man works from home on a standup desk whilst walking on a treadmill

    Healthy industry, prosperous economy

    If we want both health and prosperity, then public health and economic strategy need to work in lockstep – but this is not the case today.
  6. A person stands on a weighing scale, overlooked by a doctor holding a tablet computer

    Scale of the challenge: Obesity and the labour market

    Obesity has a well-known and profound impact on people’s health. Yet, less research has looked at the impact of obesity on prosperity.