Anna Vassall PhD
- LSHTM
- Keppel Street
- London
- WC1E 7HT
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Anna Vassall is a health economist with around twenty years experience economic analysis. She first worked in the NHS supporting funding/contracting. She then took an MSc in Health Planning and Financing at the LSHTM, thereafter working for DFID as a health economist in the UK and Pakistan. This was followed by a period at Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Amsterdam working on health planning and financing, aid effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis and reproductive health in a wide range of low and middle income countries. For the last few years, she has been managing European Community and World Bank funded health sector reform and development projects in Yemen, East Timor, Syria and Sudan. Her PhD is in the economic evaluation of tuberculosis control.
Affiliation
Research
Anna's research interests are in the economic evaluation of HIV (with a focus on efficiency, integration, scaling-up and systems costs estimation) and aid effectiveness. She is a member of the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group, within Global Health and Development.
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Selected publications
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Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay in High Burden Countries: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
Vassall, A. ; van Kampen, S. ; Sohn, H. ; Michael, J.S. ; John, K.R. ; den Boon, S. ; Davis, J.L. ; Whitelaw, A. ; Nicol, M.P. ; Gler, M.T. ; Khaliqov, A. ; Zamudio, C. ; Perkins, M.D. ; Boehme, C.C. ; Cobelens, F. ;
PLoS Med, 2011; 8(11):e1001120
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Costs and efficiency of integrating HIV/AIDS services with other health services: a systematic review of evidence and experience.
Sweeney, S. ; Obure, C.D. ; Maier, C.B. ; Greener, R. ; Dehne, K. ; Vassall, A. ;
Sex Transm Infect, 2011;
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The health system and external financing.
Vassall, A.; Martinez-Alvarez, M.
in 'Health Systems in low- and middle-income countries: An economic and policy perspective' Smith, RD; Hanson, K(2011) Oxford University Press
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Patient costs of accessing collaborative tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus interventions in Ethiopia.
Vassall, A.; Seme, A.; Compernolle, P.; Meheus, F.;
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2010; 14(5):604-10
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Reforming tuberculosis control in Ukraine: results of pilot projects and implications for the national scale-up of DOTS.
Vassall, A.; Chechulin, Y.; Raykhert, I.; Osalenko, N.; Svetlichnaya, S.; Kovalyova, A.; van der Werf, M.J.; Turchenko, L.V.; Hasker, E.; Miskinis, K.; Veen, J.; Zaleskis, R.;
Health Policy Plan, 2009; 24(1):55-62
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of introduction of rapid, alternative methods to identify multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in middle-income countries.
Acuna-Villaorduna, C.; Vassall, A.; Henostroza, G.; Seas, C.; Guerra, H.; Vasquez, L.; Morcillo, N.; Saravia, J.; O'Brien, R.; Perkins, M.D.; Cunningham, J.; Llanos-Zavalaga, L.; Gotuzzo, E.;
Clin Infect Dis, 2008; 47(4):487-95
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Estimating the resource needs of scaling-up HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review for national policy makers and planners.
Vassall, A.; Compernolle, P.;
Health Policy, 2006; 79(1):1-15
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Chapter 22. Tropical Diseases Targeted for Elimination: Chagas Disease, Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, and Leprosy
Remme, J.H.F.; Feenstra, P.; Lever, P.R.; Médici, A.; Morel, C.; Noma, M.; Ramaiah, K.D.; Richards, F.; Seketeli, A.; Schmunis, G.; Brakel, W.H.V.; Vassall, A.
in 'Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)' (2006) Oxford University Press (New York)
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