The following are active research working parties overseen by the IFoA’s Health and Care Research Sub-committee.
All members are encouraged to volunteer for a research working party. If you have your own ideas for member-led research you would like to pursue, please contact our Practice Communities Team below or refer to our Guidance for Research Working Parties (562 KB PDF).
Members interested in volunteering for a research working party should check our volunteer vacancies.
This working party aims to develop resources for health and care actuaries, particularly to:
Chair: Paul Lacock
Established: 2022
This working party aims to use the latest population health datasets and analysis techniques to update existing understandings of critical illness incidence rates and provide benchmarks for insured portfolios, particularly in the context of changing social and economic conditions in England and since the Covid pandemic.
In addition to the actuaries working in life insurance, outputs will also be developed to be of interest to NHS and social care audiences in England.
Chair: Chris Reynolds
Established: 2024
This working party aims to explore the potential for external data sources (that is, data not held by the CMI) to enhance the understanding of long-term sickness and recovery rates within the national workforce population, with a view to providing insights to the modelling of income protection portfolios and wider public health dynamics.
The target audience for this working party is IFoA members, actuaries of other actuarial associations, health sector professionals including in the NHS, and public health and social security leaders in the UK.
Chair: to be confirmed
Established: 2025
This working party aims to:
Chairs: Lisa Balboa and Joe Wilson
Established: 2020
This working party was established to promote the development of population health management (PHM) within the actuarial profession and the health sector. The purpose of the working party is to explore and identify how actuaries can contribute to the development of PHM.
Given the geographic location and experience of the working party members, there is a natural focus on aligning with the application of PHM within the UK’s National Health Service, but the work should be relevant and transferable to other countries.
Chair: David Beddows
Established: 2018
This working party aims to contribute to the public debate around adult social care to help turn the government’s first step into a long-term sustainable solution to the funding of adult care.
Chair: Thomas Kenny
Established: 2022
This working party aims to create a framework to assist health and care actuaries in determining what techniques are appropriate for their project. To illustrate the framework, the research will provide specific examples of different tasks a health and care actuary may encounter, along with the pros and cons of the different approaches for each of these specific cases, with guidance for when it is appropriate to use them.
Chair: Michiel Lutejin
Established: 2023
This working party aims to identify key wellness and prevention pillars relevant to the insurance industry, such as physical, nutritional, social, emotional, financial, spiritual, intellectual, and environmental wellness.
Chair: Deepesh Vaid
Established: 2024
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