Lorna Guinness PhD

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Background

Lorna Guinness joined the Health Policy Unit in 2001. Prior to this she was working as an economist at UNAIDS in Geneva. She has a PhD in Health Economics and 14 years experience working in the economics of health care in low income countries and is also a visiting research fellow at the Australian Centre for Economics Research in Health at the Australian National University, Canberra.

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.

Research

The focus of my research is the economics of HIV/AIDS programmes and I am a member of the HIVTools Research Group and the Health Economics and Financing Programme in the Health Policy Unit. 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.  I am currently exploring the issue of scaling up of HIV prevention programmes in India by analysing costs of prevention projects at different levels of coverage and examining the contractual relationships present in large scale programmes.

Selected publications

• Guinness, L.; Kumaranayake, L.; Hanson, K.; A cost function for HIV prevention services: is there a 'u' -shape? Cost Eff Resour Alloc, 2007; 5(1):13
• Guinness, L.; Kumaranayake, L.; Rajaraman, B.; Sankaranarayanan, G.; Vannela, G.; Raghupathi, P.; George, A.; Does scale matter? The costs of HIV-prevention interventions for commercial sex workers in India. Bull World Health Organ, 2005; 83(10):747-755
• Creese, A.; Floyd, K.; Alban, A.; Guinness, L. Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in Africa: a systematic review of the evidence Lancet, 2002; 359(9318):1635-1642
• Guinness, L.; Vickerman, P.; Quayyum, Z.; Foss, A.; Watts, C.; Rodericks, A.; Azim, T.; Jana, S.; Kumaranayake, L.; The cost-effectiveness of consistent and early intervention of harm reduction for injecting drug users in Bangladesh. Addiction, 2009;
• Guinness, L.; Arthur, G.; Bhatt, S. M.; Achia, G.; Kariuki, S.; Gilks, C. F. Costs of hospital care for HIV positive and HIV negative patients at Kenyetta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. AIDS, 2002; 16(6):901-908
• Vickerman, P.; Kumaranayake, L.; Balakireva, O.; Guinness, L.; Artyukh, O.; Semikop, T.; Yaremenko, O.; Watts, C.; The Cost-Effectiveness of Expanding Harm Reduction Activities for Injecting Drug Users in Odessa, Ukraine. Sex Transm Dis, 2006; 33(10 Suppl):S89-102
• Guinness, L.; Walker, D.; Ndubani, P.; Jama, J.; Kelly, P. Surviving the impact of HIV-related illness in the Zambian business sector AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 2003; 17(7):353-363
• Fung, I.C.; Guinness, L.; Vickerman, P.; Watts, C.; Vannela, G.; Vadhvana, J.; Foss, A.M.; Malodia, L.; Gandhi, M.; Jani, G.; Modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of the HIV intervention programme amongst commercial sex workers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. BMC Public Health, 2007; 7(1):195

Full publications listing (since 2001)