Neil Spicer BSc MSc PhD

Lecturer in Global Health Policy

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I am a lecturer in global health policy based at the Department of Global Health and Development since early 2006. My current research explores global HIV/AIDS initiatives in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the International Health Partnership (IHP+), and innovative community-based maternal and newborn child health interventions in India and Africa. My doctorate at the University of Glasgow focused on the delivery of primary healthcare in Jordan.

Affiliation

• Department of Global Health and Development

Teaching

I am the Course Director of the joint LSHTM/LSE MSc Health Policy Planning and Financing. I teach on the MSc modules Health Policy: Process and Power and Sociological Approaches to Health.

Research

My current research examines the effects of global HIV/AIDS initiatives on country health systems focusing on Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia. The research explores issues of harmonisation, alignment and coordination, building health systems capacity, human resources, the public-private-NGO mix, marginalised groups' access to key HIV/AIDS services and the effects of the Global Fund on civil society organisations.

I am working on an external review of the International Health Partnership (IHP+) where the focus is on donor harmonisation and alignment, health systems strengthening and accountability.

I am also working on a Bill and Melinda Gates financed study exploring innovative maternal and newborn child health interventions in Nigeria, Ethiopia and India.  

• Selected publications

• 10 best resources on ... the current effects of global health initiatives on country health systems.

  Spicer, N. ; Walsh, A. ;

  Health Policy Plan, 2011;

• 'It's risky to walk in the city with syringes': understanding access to HIV/AIDS services for injecting drug users in the former Soviet Union countries of Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

  Spicer, N. ; Bogdan, D. ; Brugha, R. ; Harmer, A. ; Murzalieva, G. ; Semigina, T. ;

  Global Health, 2011; 7:22

• Circus monkeys or change agents? Civil society advocacy for HIV/AIDS in adverse policy environments.

  Spicer, N. ; Harmer, A. ; Aleshkina, J. ; Bogdan, D. ; Chkhatarashvili, K. ; Murzalieva, G. ; Rukhadze, N. ; Samiev, A. ; Walt, G. ;

  Soc Sci Med, 2011;

• National and subnational HIV/AIDS coordination: are global health initiatives closing the gap between intent and practice?

  Spicer, N.; Aleshkina, J.; Biesma, R.; Brugha, R.; Caceres, C.; Chilundo, B.; Chkhatarashvili, K.; Harmer, A.; Miege, P.; Murzalieva, G.; Ndubani, P.; Rukhadze, N.; Semigina, T.; Walsh, A.; Walt, G.; Zhang, X.;

  Global Health, 2010; 6:3

• The effects of global health initiatives on country health systems: a review of the evidence from HIV/AIDS control

  Biesma, R.G.; Brugha, R.; Harmer, A.; Walsh, A.; Spicer, N.; Walt, G.

  Health Policy and Planning, 2009; 24(4):239-252

• An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems

  Samb, B.; Evans, T.; Dybul, M.; Atun, R.; Moatti, J.P.; Nishtar, S.; Wright, A.; Celletti, F.; Hsu, J.; Kim, J.Y.; Brugha, R.; Russell, A.; Etienne, C.; de, S.; Mwase, T.; Wang, W.J.; Wright, J.; Dare, L.; Delfraissy, J.F.; Boillot, F.; Miege, P.; Zhang, X.L.; Rhatigan, J.; Weintraub, R.; Pun, S.; Abe, C.; Caceres, C.; Camara, M.; Coriat, B.; D'Almeida, C.; Aleshkina, J.; Murzalieva, G.; Kadzandira, J.; Hammami, N.; Mwapasa, V.; Chkhatarashvili, K.; Buch, E.; Miti, K.; Kamenga, C.; Elouma, M.S.E.; Schwalbe, N.; Greenberg, A.; Frehywot, S.; Markus, A.; Goeman, L.; Khan, A.; Amati, J.; Mwaura-Muiru, E.; Ivers, L.C.; Ellner, A.; Shakow, A.; Kley, N.C.; Irwin, A.; Sullivan, E.; Baker, B.; Cohn, J.; Davis, P.; Headley, J.; Siplon, P.; Dickinson, C.; Pearson, M.; Waddington, C.; Boyer, S.; Eboko, F.; Orsi, F.; Larouze, B.; le Loup, G.; Ndubani, P.; Simbaya, J.; Boelaert, M.; Cavalli, A.; Ooms, G.; Pirard, M.; Polman, K.; van Damme, W.; van Dormael, M.; Vermeiren, P.; Teokul, W.; Dlodlo, R.; Fujiwara, P.; Ruppol, S.; Vella, S.; Semigina, T.; Corbett, E.; Godfrey-Faussett, P.; Spicer, N.; Walt, G.; Kanchanachitra, C.; Philips, M.; Riva, G.; Kabuayi, J.P.; Kiputsu, A.K.; Ndongosieme, A.; Koulla-Shiro, S.; Samake, S.; Bamba, S.I.; Coulibaly, Y.; Traore, M.N.; Berthe, I.B.I.; Wibulpolprasert, S.; Chunharas, S.; Jerome, G.; Mukherjee, J.; Nguini, M.E.O.; Rao, K.D.; Reddy, S.; Nyirenda, L.; Biesma, R.; Bruen, C.; Dicker, P.; Walsh, A.; Parsons, A.; Mathole, T.; Sanders, D.; Raghavan, S.S.; Mwanza, F.; Michael, E.B.; Richard, W.; Banati, P.; Blakley, M.; Ingenkamp, N.; Lansang, M.A.; Low-Beer, D.; Shakarishvili, G.; Kayongo, A.; Buse, K.; Martineau, T.; Dehne, K.; Pett, I.; Salama, P.; Chilundo, B.; Ndumbe, P.; Atashili, J.; Sow, P.S.; Hill, P.S.; Brenzel, L.; Babaley, M.; Dayrit, M.; de Zoysa, I.; Dyrhauge, J.; Galichet, B.; Kadama, P.; Porignon, D.; Russell, S.; Tata, H.; van Lerberghe, W.; World Hlth Org Maximizing, P.

  Lancet, 2009; 373(9681):2137-2169

• Places of exclusion and inclusion: Asylum-seeker and refugee experiences of neighbourhoods in the UK

  Spicer, N.

  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2008; 34(3):491-510

• Sedentarization and children's health: changing discourses in the northeast Badia of Jordan.

  Spicer, N.J.;

  Soc Sci Med, 2005; 61(10):2165-76

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