Dr Giulia Greco

MSc PhD

Assistant Professor

and MRC Fellow (Economics of Health)

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

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Giulia

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 HESA) at the LSHTM in 2006. In 2013-14 I have supported the drafting 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.

I have recently been 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 am currently an Honorary Health Economist at the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS and a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Economics, Makerere University, Uganda

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)

Teaching

I am a seminar leader for Introduction to Health Economics at the LSHTM.

I teach in the course Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care for the MSc in Health Services Research; and the course Health Economics and Finance for the MPH at Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda.

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. My second area of focus is maternal and child health. In particular, I am interested in: 1) assessment of financial resources for attaining MDGs 4 and 5 in priority countries; 2) economic evaluations of reproductive, maternal and newborn health programmes (MaiMwana Project in Malawi; Saving Newborn Lives in Nepal and Malawi; EVA-PMDUP in Zambia and India); 3) economic evaluation of complex interventions (Good School trial to reduce violence against children in Uganda and 4) impact evaluation of a pay for performance programme in Tanzania.

Research Area

Complex interventions

Economic evaluation

Health care financing

Health outcomes

Maternal health

Public health

Gender

Impact evaluation

Mixed methods

Reproductive health

Discipline

Development studies

Economics

Social Policy

Country

Burkina Faso

India

Malawi

Nepal

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

Region

Least developed countries: UN classification

Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Outcomes in Economic Evaluations of Public Health Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Health, Capabilities and Subjective Wellbeing.

Greco, G. ; Lorgelly, P. ; Yamabhai, I. ;

Health Econ

Setting the Weights: The Women’s Capabilities Index for Malawi

Greco, G.

Social Indicators Research

What is a good life? Selecting capabilities to assess women's quality of life in rural Malawi.

Greco, G. ; Skordis-Worrall, J. ; Mkandawire, B. ; Mills, A. ;

Soc Sci Med

Effect of Paying for Performance on Utilisation, Quality, and User Costs of Health Services in Tanzania: A Controlled Before and After Study.

Binyaruka, P. ; Patouillard, E. ; Powell-Jackson, T. ; Greco, G. ; Maestad, O. ; Borghi, J. ;

PLoS One

Costs and consequences of abortions to women and their households: a cross-sectional study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Ilboudo, P.G. ; Greco, G. ; Sundby, J. ; Torsvik, G. ;

Health Policy Plan

Effect of women's groups and volunteer peer counselling on rates of mortality, morbidity, and health behaviours in mothers and children in rural Malawi (MaiMwana): a factorial, cluster-randomised controlled trial

Lewycka, S.; Mwansambo, C.; Rosato, M.; Kazembe, P.; Phiri, T.; Mganga, A.; Chapota, H.; Malamba, F.; Kainja, E.; Newell, M. L.; Greco, G.; Pulkki-Brannstrom, A. M.; Skordis-Worrall, J.; Vergnano, S.; Osrin, D.; Costello, A.

Lancet

The Economic Approach to Evaluation of Health Interventions in Developing Countries through Randomised Field Trial

Acharya, A.; Greco, G.; Masset, E.

Journal of Development Effectiveness

Countdown to 2015: assessment of donor assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health between 2003 and 2006.

Greco, G.; Powell-Jackson, T.; Borghi, J.; Mills, A.;