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Lorna Guinness

PhD

Honorary Associate Professor

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

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 healthcare financing, 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

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. 

Research

My research interests focus on the role of costing information in health care decision-making and financing.

Research Area
Economic evaluation
Health care financing
Equity
Discipline
Economics
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Addiction

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 PVM
2021
Health policy and planning
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
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
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
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