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 financing and economic evaluation, efficiency and equity analyses in low income countries both in Africa and Asia. I also work on the economics of interventions for vulnerable groups.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I am a distance learning tutor responsible for course design and delivery across modules in PHM103 Introduction to Health Economics, PHM204 Economic Evaluation and PHM219 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 am a longstanding tutor on PHM305 Project Module (Distance learning) for which I supervise MSc disstertation work. I supervise PhD students in the area of costing, financing and economic evaluation of healthcare programmes in low and middle income countries with a specific interest in cost estimation.
Research
My research interests lie in cost estimation and its role in economic evaluation, equity and financing analyses for healthcare decision-making and provider payments. I have special interests in HIV as well as the economics of healthcare interventions for vulnerable groups.
Selected Publications
