Health Policy Unit

The aim of the Unit is to conduct research that can help inform the development and implementation of global health policy but particularly in low and middle-income countries. Staff come from a wide range of disciplines, including economics, epidemiology, mathematics, policy analysis, medicine and social anthropology. The main research groupings in the Unit are the Health Economics and Financing Programme; HIV Tools modelling and economics research; Conflict and Health; Gender Violence and Health; Anthropology and Health; and Health Systems Development.

The Unit houses the UK's Department for International Development (DFID)- funded Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems, and provides social science, economics and modelling input in DFID Consortia on HIV & Sexual Health Research; Communicable diseases Consortium (TARGETS), Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health, and HIV treatment and care, as well as the Gates Malaria Partnership, the DFID Microbicides Development Programme, and the Gates Avahan Project.

• Current research includes:

• The Effect of Performance Based Funding Model of Global Fund Grants on HIV/AIDS Service Delivery

• The determinants and impacts of health insurance enrolment in Lao, PDR

• The Effect of International Aid For HIV/AIDS On The Health Systems of Hondures and Costa Rica

• Understanding factors influencing enrolment in Community-Based Health Insurance (CHI) from rural dwellers’ perspectives: A case study in Nigeria

• Barriers to Effective utilization of HIV/STI Research findings for Policy and Practice in Malawi

• Maximising The Influence of Consortia in Health Policy Process

• Identifying Access-Barriers To Rape Treatment in War

• Economic Behaviour of Provate Medicine Retailers

• The impact of international patients on Thai health system

  
  

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