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Dr Neil Spicer

Associate Professor

United Kingdom

Neil Spicer is an Associate Professor in Global Health Policy at the Department of Global Health and Development, LSHTM and has fifteen years of experience of qualitative health policy and systems research in the UK and low- and middle income countries including India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Neil has a PhD in geography from Glasgow University.

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Research

Globalisation

Health care policy

Health policy

Health services research

Maternal health

Global Health

Health services

Mixed methods

Qualitative methods

Policy analysis

Sociology

Social Sciences

HIV/AIDS

Selected Publications

Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion.
Agyepong, I; SPICER, N; Ooms, G; Jahn, A; Bärnighausen, T; Beiersmann, C; Brown Amoakoh, H; Fink, G; Guo, Y; Hennig, L; Kifle Habtemariam, M; Kouyaté, BA; Loewenson, R; Micah, A; Moon, S; Moshabela, M; Myhre, SL; Ottersen, T; Patcharanarumol, W; Sarker, M; Sen, G; Shiozaki, Y; Songane, F; Sridhar, D; Ssengooba, F; ... HEYMANN, D.
2023
Lancet (London, England)
Viewing the global health system as a complex adaptive system - implications for research and practice.
BORGHI, J; ISMAIL, S; Hollway, J; Kim, RE; Sturmberg, J; Brown, G; Mechler, R; Volmink, H; SPICER, N; Chalabi, Z; CASSIDY, R; Johnson, J; FOSS, A; Koduah, A; Searle, C; Komendantova, N; Semwanga, A; Moon, S;
2022
F1000Research
Improving maternal and newborn health services in Northeast Nigeria through a government-led partnership of stakeholders: a quasi-experimental study.
Willey, B; UMAR, N; BEAUMONT, E; ALLEN, E; Anyanti, J; Bello, AB; Bhattacharya, A; EXLEY, J; MAKOWIECKA, K; Okolo, M; Sani, R; SCHELLENBERG, J; SPICER, N; Usman, UA; Gana, AM; Shuaibu, A; MARCHANT, T;
2022
BMJ open
'A seamless transition': how to sustain a community health worker scheme within the health system of Gombe state, northeast Nigeria.
Wickremasinghe, D; Alkali Hamza, Y; UMAR, N; Willey, B; Okolo, M; Gana, A; Shuaibu, A; Anyanti, J; MARCHANT, T; SPICER, N;
2021
Health policy and planning
Understanding the importance of non-material factors in retaining community health workers in low-income settings: a qualitative case-study in Ethiopia.
ARORA, N; HANSON, K; SPICER, N; Estifanos, AS; Keraga, DW; Welearegay, AT; Tela, FG; Hussen, YA; Mandefro, YS; QUAIFE, M;
2020
BMJ OPEN
What role can health policy and systems research play in supporting responses to COVID-19 that strengthen socially just health systems?
GILSON, L; Marchal, B; Ayepong, I; Barasa, E; Dossou, J-P; George, A; Guinaran, R; Maceira, D; Molyneux, S; Prashanth, NS; Schneider, H; Shawar, Y; Shiffman, JR; Sheikh, K; SPICER, N; Van Belle, S; Whyle, E;
2020
Health policy and planning
'It's far too complicated': why fragmentation persists in global health.
SPICER, N; Agyepong, I; Ottersen, T; Jahn, A; Ooms, G;
2020
Globalization and health
Professional advice for primary healthcare workers in Ethiopia: a social network analysis.
Sabot, K; Blanchet, K; BERHANU, D; SPICER, N; SCHELLENBERG, J;
2020
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
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