Lorna Guinness PhD
- LSHTM
- 15-17 Tavistock Place
- London
- WC1H 9SH
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Lorna Guinness joined LSHTM in 2001. Prior to this she was working as an economist at UNAIDS in Geneva. She has a PhD in Health Economics and works on the economics of health care in low income countries with a specific interest in the HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Affiliation
Teaching
I am Module Organiser for the Distance Learning MPH course "Introduction to Health Economics" as well as co-director of the UNICEF/LSHTM short course "Health Economics and Financing". I have also lectured and led seminars on the LSHTM Masters degree study units: Economics of Health Systems; Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Reproductive Tract Infections; Introduction to Health Economics; and Advanced Health Economics. In addition she has organised, facilitated and delivered training for programme managers on the application of economic evaluation to HIV/AIDS programmes in Africa and Asia. She has recently co-edited with Virginia Wiseman the second edition of "Introduction to Health Economics" - a text book directed at non-economists (http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780335243563.html).
Research
The focus of my research is the economics of HIV/AIDS programmes and I am a member of the Health Economics and Systems Analysis and the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology groups in the Department of Global Health. I have worked on a number of analyses of the costs and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS programmes in South Asia and Former Soviet Union and the costs scaling up of HIV prevention programmes in India. I also have a research interest in institutional economics and the contractual relationships in large scale vertical programmes. I am currently working on the economic evaluation component of the REMSTART trial (Reduction of early mortality among HIV-infected subjects starting antiretroviral therapy) in Zambia and Tanzania.
Research areas
- Economic evaluation
- Health systems
- Sexual health
Disciplines
- Economics
Disease and Health Conditions
- HIV/AIDS
- Sexually transmitted disease
Regions
- South Asia
- Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Countries
- Bangladesh
- India
- Kenya
- Pakistan
- Tanzania
- Ukraine
- Zambia
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Selected publications
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What can transaction costs tell us about governance in the delivery of large scale HIV prevention programmes in southern India?
Guinness, L.;
Soc Sci Med, 2011; 72(12):1939-47
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Introduction to Health Economics (Understanding Public Health)
Guinness, L.; Wiseman, V.
Open University Press 2011
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The effects of scale on the costs of targeted HIV prevention interventions among female and male sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgenders in India.
Chandrashekar, S.; Guinness, L.; Kumaranayake, L.; Reddy, B.; Govindraj, Y.; Vickerman, P.; Alary, M.;
Sex Transm Infect, 2010; 86 Suppl 1:i89-94
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The cost-effectiveness of consistent and early intervention of harm reduction for injecting drug users in Bangladesh.
Guinness, L.; Vickerman, P.; Quayyum, Z.; Foss, A.; Watts, C.; Rodericks, A.; Azim, T.; Jana, S.; Kumaranayake, L.;
Addiction, 2009; 105(2):319-28
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A cost function for HIV prevention services: is there a 'u' -shape?
Guinness, L.; Kumaranayake, L.; Hanson, K.;
Cost Eff Resour Alloc, 2007; 5(1):13
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Does scale matter? The costs of HIV-prevention interventions for commercial sex workers in India.
Guinness, L.; Kumaranayake, L.; Rajaraman, B.; Sankaranarayanan, G.; Vannela, G.; Raghupathi, P.; George, A.;
Bull World Health Organ, 2005; 83(10):747-755
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Costs of hospital care for HIV positive and HIV negative patients at Kenyetta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
Guinness, L.; Arthur, G.; Bhatt, S. M.; Achia, G.; Kariuki, S.; Gilks, C. F.
AIDS, 2002; 16(6):901-908
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Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa: a systematic review of the evidence
Creese, A.; Floyd, K.; Alban, A.; Guinness, L.
Lancet, 2002; 359(9318):1635-1642
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