Dr Vahé Nafilyan OBE is a health statistician and the head of the Health Division at the Office for National Statistics. He will be giving a talk titled "Understanding the effect of health on labour market outcomes using new linked data" on Tuesday 17th June,1:30-3:00pm in Classroom 1 at the Thatcher Business Education Centre, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, OX1 1HP.
In collaboration with NHS England and DHSC, the ONS is currently leading a work programme investigating the impact of various health conditions, and treatments for those conditions, on labour market outcomes such as employment, pay and benefit receipts. The ONS has created a data asset comprising NHS health records, HMRC pay-as-you-earn records, DWP benefit receipts, ONS death registrations and ONS Census data. The datasets are linked at the individual level, cover almost the entire working-age population of England, and provide nearly a decade of longitudinal observations. The talk will describe the new data linkages ONS has developed.
Vahé joined ONS in 2017 and holds a PhD in Economics from King’s College London and has extensive experience of using linked administrative records to produce innovative analyses on important public health issues. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he used newly linked data to lead various analyses on inequalities in COVID-19 mortality and vaccination. He is currently overseeing a programme of work investigating the labour market effects of health interventions.