Dr Lorna Guinness

HONORARY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

United Kingdom

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Lorna

I am a Health Economist with over twenty years of experience in low- and middle-income settings. I have worked within international funding agencies, as a consultant and in academia carrying out research, policy advice and training in economic evaluation, efficiency and equity analyses in low income countries both in Africa and Asia.

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I am a distance learning tutor responsible for course design and delivery across modules in Introduction to Health Economics, Economic Evaluation and Impact Evaluation. I have developed a number of short courses on the economics and financing of health care for different funding agencies including UNICEF, DfID, the British Council, UNAIDS and AusAID. I supervise PhD students in the area of economic evaluation of healthcare programmes in low and middle income countries with a specific interest in cost estimation. I sit on the steering committee of the LSHTM Global Health Leadership course and Global Health Costing Consortium.

Selected Publications

Cost of scaling-up comprehensive primary health care in India: Implications for universal health coverage.

Singh, D; Prinja, S; Bahuguna, P; Chauhan, AS; GUINNESS, L; Sharma, S; Lakshmi, PV M;

2021

HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING

Establishing reference costs for the health benefit packages under universal health coverage in India: cost of health services in India (CHSI) protocol.

Prinja, S; SINGH, MP; GUINNESS, L; Rajsekar, K; Bhargava, B;

2020

BMJ open

Process evaluation of health system costing - Experience from CHSI study in India.

Prinja, S; Brar, S; SINGH, MP; Rajsekhar, K; Sachin, O; Naik, J; Singh, M; Tomar, H; CHSI Study Collaborating Investigators,; Bahuguna, P; GUINNESS, L;

2020

PloS one

Examining Approaches to Estimate the Prevalence of Catastrophic Costs Due to Tuberculosis from Small-Scale Studies in South Africa.

SWEENEY, S; VASSALL, A; GUINNESS, L; Siapka, M; Chimbindi, N; Mudzengi, D; Gomez, GB;

2020

PharmacoEconomics

Estimating the Unit Costs of Healthcare Service Delivery in India: Addressing Information Gaps for Price Setting and Health Technology Assessment.

Bahuguna, P; GUINNESS, L; Sharma, S; Chauhan, AS; Downey, L; Prinja, S;

2020

Applied health economics and health policy

The costs of providing antiretroviral therapy services to HIV-infected individuals presenting with advanced HIV disease at public health centres in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Findings from a randomised trial evaluating different health care strategies.

KIMARO, GD; Mfinanga, S; SIMMS, V; Kivuyo, S; BOTTOMLEY, C; HAWKINS, N; Harrison, TS; Jaffar, S; GUINNESS, L; REMSTART trial team,;