Health Economics and Systems Analysis Group (HESA)
Group Head: Dr Catherine Goodman
Group Administrator: Nicola Lord
HESA is made up of around 45 academic staff and 5 administrative support staff. We cover a range of disciplines including health economics, policy analysis, public health and epidemiology, clinical medicine, and social science. A number of staff are based in overseas sites, including Thailand, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria. We support research degree students across a variety of health system-related topics.
Our objectives are:
- To undertake high quality research which improves the knowledge base relating to health system performance in low- and middle-income countries,
- To contribute to methodological developments in the range of disciplines and fields in which we work, and support development of methods for multidisciplinary thinking
- To encourage communication and dissemination of research findings to support uptake
- To develop and strengthen collaborations which contribute to health policy and systems research capacity in partner organisations
Our work falls into the following main areas:
- Analysis of arrangements for governance, organisation, financing and delivery of health systems and health services
- Economic evaluation of health interventions and services, including vaccines, HIV and STDs, malaria, MCH
- Development and application of methods for evaluating complex health system interventions
- Macroeconomics of health and health policies
The Communicable Disease Policy Research Group, within HESA, focuses on the diverse public health problems associated with communicable disease control internationally. (Link to CDPRG website).
Also, in the link below - Anne Mills, President-Elect of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) discusses her priorities in the role, including the increased focus on research in developing countries and looks ahead to the 9th World Congress on Health Economics in Sydney in July 2013. http://www.globalhealthtv.com/conference_tv/v/ihea_president_elect/
