Dr Giulia Greco
MSc PhD FHEA
Associate Professor
in Health and Wellbeing Economics
LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom
I am a health economist with a research interest in understanding the value of health and quality of life, and the measurement of broader outcomes in the evaluation of public health programmes, including capabilities and subjective wellbeing.
I obtained a degree in Economics and Public Administration at Bocconi University in Milan and an MSc in Social Policy and Planning for Developing Countries at LSE, with a dissertation on the international migration of health workers. I completed my PhD at the LSHTM on the development of a multidimensional index based on Sen’s Capability Approach to assess women’s wellbeing in rural Malawi.
I joined the Health Economics and Financing Programme (now Global Health Economics Centre) at the LSHTM in 2006. In 2013-14 I have supported the development of the Wellbeing and Policy report of the Legatum Commission chaired by Gus O'Donnell with Angus Deaton, Richard Layard, Martine Durand and David Halpern. In 2021, I worked with the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, chaired by Mariana Mazzucato, on the development of the 3rd Council Brief on Valuing Health for All.
I was awarded an Early Career Fellowship from the UK Medical Research Council to develop a wellbeing measure for use in economic evaluation of public health programmes. I was Honorary Senior Scientist at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit and Visiting Lecturer at the School of Economics, Makerere University, Uganda from 2016 to 2019.
I was a founder and convener of the iHEA Special Interest Group for Early Career Researchers (2016 - 2021) and I am a convener for the Special Interest Group on Mental Health Economics. I am an elected member of the Executive Council of the Human Development & Capabilities Association and I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.
I supervised Ian Ross for his PhD on measuring and valuing quality of life in sanitation interventions in Mozambique and I am currently supervising 1) Kenneth Katumba, with a PhD on the role of structural and behavioural factors for HIV prevention in Uganda; and 2) Rebecca Prah, with a PhD on the use of novel quality of life measures for assessing adolescent wellbeing and menstrual health in Uganda.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I am a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
I enjoy teaching Health Economics modules to in-house and distance learning students. I am co-Module Organiser for the DL module PHM203: Economic Analysis for Health Policy, and MSc Project tutor for the Masters in Public Health. I was a seminar leader for Introduction to Health Economics at the LSHTM.
I taught in the course Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care for the MSc in Health Services Research; the course Health Economics and Finance for the MPH at Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda, and a session on the economics of reproductive and sexual health at the East Africa Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Health.
Research
My main research interest is on the measurement and determinants of subjective wellbeing and capabilities, and their use in the evaluation of complex public health interventions, using mixed-methods. In particular, I have been working on:
1) assessment of financial resources for RMNCH in priority countries as part of the Countdown initiative;
2) economic evaluation of reproductive, maternal and newborn health programmes (MaiMwana Project in Malawi; Saving Newborn Lives in Nepal and Malawi; EVA-PMDUP in Zambia and India, OMWaNA Kangaroo Mother Care in Uganda);
3) economic evaluation of complex interventions in schools (Good School and PVACS trials to reduce violence against children in Uganda and Tanzania, problem-solving mental health programme in India (PRIDE), Menstrual Hygiene Management in Uganda and Tanzania)
4) economic analysis of mental health programmes in conflict-affected areas (RECAP and GOAL in Uganda and Lebanon, CHANGE in Uganda and Ukraine)
Selected Publications
