Lucy Gilson BA MA PhD

Professor of Health Policy & Systems

I currently hold a joint appointment between the LSHTM and the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town. My background is in development and health economics/policy.

Affiliation

Teaching

My LSHTM teaching commitments focus on PhD supervision, support for distance learning courses and occasional on-site teaching.

Research

My primary research interests include concerns for: equity in health and health care; governance in health systems; how health care is funded and organised; and how decisions about health and health care are made at policy, managerial and household levels.

Research areas

  • Complex interventions
  • Equity
  • Evaluation
  • Health care financing
  • Health care policy
  • Health inequalities
  • Health policy
  • Health systems
  • Implementation research
  • Qualitative methods
  • Research : policy relationship

Disciplines

  • Development studies
  • Economics
  • Policy analysis

Regions

  • Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Other interests

  • Health Policy Process
  • Leadership and management
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