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 evidence synthesis to improve staff wellbeing in the NHS, and approaches to public health decision-making within the context of Integrated Care Systems at a time of fiscal austerity. 

Current Projects:

1. CARES-Well (2025 - Present): Staff wellbeing and innovative partnerships to enable staff to care well under pressure and thrive at work -  Developing a framework to help employers assess the relative costs and benefits of different healthy workplace initiatives using umbrella and realist reviews
2.  AfRI (2025 - Present): Approaches to decision making and resources allocation for population health, in times of constraint - An evaluation of decision-making relating to resource allocation in Local Authorities in the context of Integrated Care Systems. This project contributes to the wider research portfolio of SPHERE.

Barshana previously held a PhD Research Fellow position in Health Economics (2021-2025) within the Health Organisation, Policy and Economics (HOPE) group at The University of Manchester, funded by NIHR ARC-GM). Her research focused on the utilisation and financing of formal social care services for ageing populations in England, examining changes in the determinants and entry requirements of community-based formal care and the evolving role of publicly funded care during a period of austerity in the sector.

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

Previously, Barshana held research roles across academic and non-profit organisations. She worked as 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 as a Data Specialist in reproductive and child health outcomes within the Monitoring and Evaluation team at ARMMAN India. Her work was centered on development economics and human rights for trafficked victims at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.