Lucy Gilson BA MA PhD
- LSHTM
- Keppel Street
- London
- WC1E 7HT
- T: based in South Africa
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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Selected publications
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Actor interfaces and practices of power in a community health worker programme: a South African study of unintended policy outcomes.
Lehmann, U. ; Gilson, L. ;
Health Policy Plan, 2012;
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Using stakeholder analysis to support moves towards universal coverage: lessons from the SHIELD project
Gilson, L.; Erasmus, E.; Borghi, J.; Macha, J.; Kamuzora, P.; Mtei, G.
Health Policy and Planning, 2012; 27:i64-i76
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Building the field of health policy and systems research: social science matters.
Gilson, L. ; Hanson, K. ; Sheikh, K. ; Agyepong, I.A. ; Ssengooba, F. ; Bennett, S. ;
PLoS Med, 2011; 8(8):e1001079
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Affordability, availability and acceptability barriers to health care for the chronically ill: Longitudinal case studies from South Africa
Goudge, J.; Gilson, L.; Russell, S.; Gumede, T.; Mills, A.;
BMC Health Services Research, 2009; 9:75
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The interface between research and policy: Experience from South Africa.
Gilson, L.; McIntyre, D.;
Soc Sci Med, 2008; 67(5):748-59
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The terrain of health policy analysis in low and middle income countries: a review of published literature 1994-2007
Gilson, L.; Raphaely, N.
Health Policy and Planning, 2008; 23(5):294-307
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Trust in health care: theoretical perspectives and research needs.
Gilson, L.;
J Health Organ Manag, 2006; 20(5):359-75
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