Lorna Guinness PhD
- LSHTM
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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. She is currently also a visiting research fellow at the Australian Centre for Economics Research in Health at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Affiliation
Teaching
Lorna's teaching activities include Module Organiser for the Distance Learning MPH course "Introduction to Health Economics" and "Health Economics and Financing" as well as co-director of the UNICEF/LSHTM short course "Health Policy and Financing". She has 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 the revisions to an introductory health economics text book (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 group 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 REMSTART (Reduction of early mortality among HIV-infected subjects starting antiretroviral therapy) in Zambia and Tanzania.
Research areas
- Economic evaluation
- Health systems
- HIV/AIDS
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Sexually transmitted disease
Disciplines
- Economics
Other interests
- MARCH
- New Institutional Economics
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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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