Miss Barshana Goswami (she/her)

Barshana is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Economics and Public Health Economics and part of the Health Economics Group and Public Health Economics Group. Her current projects focus on synthesising evidence to improve staff wellbeing and partnerships in the NHS, and approaches to public health decision-making relating to resource allocation in Local Authorities within the context of Integrated Care Systems at a time of fiscal constraints. 

Barshana was also a PhD Research Fellow in Health Economics (2021-2025) within the Health Organisation, Policy and Economics (HOPE Research) group at Centre for Primary Care | Biology, Medicine and Health | The University of Manchester, and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research’s Applied Research Collaboration - Greater Manchester (NIHR ARC-GM). Her research broadly focused on the utilisation and financing of formal social care services among ageing populations in England. In particular, she studied the determinants and entry requirements of community-based formal care, any time trends in such factors, and the evolving role of publicly funded care within a context of austerity in the sector.

Barshana has experience in microeconometric modelling, panel data analysis, reweighting techniques (matching, entropy balancing), semi-parametric and non-parametric survival analysis, multiple regressions, survey design, evidence synthesis (realist reviews, scoping reviews, umbrella reviews) and mixed-methods research. 

Previously, Barshana has worked in various research capacities at academic institutions and non-profit organisations. She was a Research Fellow in Biostatistics within the Regional Resource Hub for Health Technology Assessment in India (RRH-HTAIn) at the Public Health Foundation of India, and a Data Specialist in reproductive and child health outcomes within the Monitoring and Evaluation team at ARMMAN India. Her work as a Research Associate at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was centered on development economics and human rights for trafficked victims.