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Mrs Jennifer Ljungqvist

Research Student - DrPH - Public Health & Policy

United Kingdom

I’ve got an MA and an MSc in economics and international relations and I am now working to complete my Doctorate of Public Health (DrPH) as a student within the Department of Global Health. I started my professional career started in IT Risk and Assurance at EY, with some work on public health and NHS linked projects in Scotland and England. However, in 2013-2015 I worked in the Health Financing Unit at Liberia’s Ministry of Health, as part of the Overseas Development Institute Fellowship Scheme. Since then I have focused on policymaking, public administration and health systems research in low-income countries, primarily Liberia. My research experience includes designing an impact evaluation study that was set up as a randomised controlled trial (RCT); conducting quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews; training, coordinating and managing survey and data entry firms, enumerators and research assistants; training facilitators assigned to deliver RCT interventions; statistical analysis using mostly STATA; literature reviews; data entry etc.

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health
Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I have facilitated seminars in economics for master’s students at LSHTM and graded linked exam papers. I have also held guest seminars on health economics for various undergraduate and graduate students at Liberian universities; trained enumerators and government facilitators tasked with data collection or training of civil servants; trained civil servants and non-government professionals in various topics and applications such as Microsoft Office, STATA, National Health Accounts, resource mapping and fiscal space analysis, research methods etc. Prior to working in international development, I held seminars for undergraduate students in Scotland on Interview Skills and Commercial Awareness, coached junior staff on IT Risk and Assurance audits and was a substitute teacher for primary school students in various subjects.

Research

I am interested in research that looks at ways to strengthen health systems in low- and middle-income countries from an economics, governance, policymaking and process management perspective. I am especially fascinated with what drives behaviour in work settings, how to create useful research that can practically inform policymaking and how to build more efficient health financing and governance systems. Throughout my studies and work I have looked at things like acceptance of telehealth and telecare applications in Scotland; appraising and managing civil servants to better public administrative processes; tracking and coordinating public health aid and donors in a low-income state; and the nature of corporate environmental responsibility. My DrPH thesis looks at the adoption of a public administrative process in Liberia’s civil service. It uses data from a government and World Bank-led RCT that I helped coordinate and am a Co-Investigator on. It also draws on qualitative interviews that I conducted as part of a case study of the Ministry of Health’s implementation of this performance appraisal reform. During my DrPH studies I also conducted an organisational analysis of the Liberian Board of Nursing and Midwifery.

Research Area
Health systems
Health care financing
Management (social science)
Administration, management
Public health administration
Health care policy
Policy analysis
Health policy
Organisational research
International health organisations
Impact evaluation
Randomised controlled trials
Qualitative research
Country
Liberia
Nigeria
United Kingdom
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Europe & Central Asia (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Building a capable civil service in Liberia: The role of the Performance Management System
LJUNGQVIST, J; Coleman, P; Deserranno, E; Geegbae, IA; Pons, V; Rogger, D;
2019
International Growth Centre
Follow the Money: Choosing the Most Appropriate Health Expenditure Tracking Tool
LJUNGQVIST, J; Rosen, R; Bhuwanee, K;
2018
Health Finance & Governance Project
The Importance of Mutual Transparency and Accountability to Effectively Coordinate Aid in Liberia’s Health Sector
LJUNGQVIST, J;
2017
Liberia Development Conference Anthology: Engendering Collective Action for Advancing Liberia’s Development
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