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Mr Benjamin Palafox

Research Fellow in Health Systems

United Kingdom

I joined the Faculty of Public Health and Policy in 2008 to work on the ACTwatch Project examining access to malaria treatment, and have since have worked on several project related to access to care and health systems development in low- and middle-income countries, including the update to the Rockefeller Foundation's influential Good Health at Low Cost report. I have also worked on several projects examining the influence of health systems and access to care on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors: The Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological study (PURE) is one of the largest studies which has established prospective cohorts in 25 countries at all levels of economic development; and the recently-completed RESPOND project, which examined barriers to hypertension care faced by poor households in Malaysia and the Philippines. I am currently working on a mixed-methods project in India and Kenya that seeks to understand how e-pharmacy markets can be regulated appropriately to optimise the quality, safety and accessibility of medicines.

My current areas of interest include pharmaceutical policy, improving access to medicines, and health systems strengthening in low- and middle-income country settings.

This year I will be tutoring students on the Public Health for Development master's course, and teaching on the Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy module for students on the School's Distance Learning MSc in Public Health.

Affiliations

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

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
Malaria Centre

Research

Research Area
Health care financing
Health policy
Health sector development
Health systems
Medicines
Public health
Health economics
Applied statistics (non-medical)
Epidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
Non-communicable diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Region
East Asia & Pacific (developing only)
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

(De)constructing 'therapeutic itineraries' of hypertension care: A qualitative study in the Philippines.
Mendoza, JA; Lasco, G; RENEDO, A; Palileo-Villanueva, L; SEGUIN, M; PALAFOX, B; Amit, AM L; Pepito, V; MCKEE, M; BALABANOVA, D;
2021
Social science & medicine (1982)
Strengths and Weaknesses of Digital Diaries as a Means to Study Patient Pathways: Experiences With a Study of Hypertension in the Philippines
Mendoza, J; SEGUIN, ML; Lasco, G; Palileo-Villanueva, LM; Amit, A; RENEDO, A; MCKEE, M; PALAFOX, B; BALABANOVA, D;
2021
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Enhancing the use of stakeholder analysis for policy implementation research: towards a novel framing and operationalised measures.
Balane, MA; PALAFOX, B; Palileo-Villanueva, LM; MCKEE, M; BALABANOVA, D;
2020
BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH
Maintaining population health in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers.
PALAFOX, B; RENEDO, A; Lasco, G; Palileo-Villanueva, L; BALABANOVA, D; MCKEE, M;
2020
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Connecting communities to primary care: a qualitative study on the roles, motivations and lived experiences of community health workers in the Philippines.
Mallari, E; Lasco, G; Sayman, DJ; Amit, AM L; BALABANOVA, D; MCKEE, M; Mendoza, J; Palileo-Villanueva, L; RENEDO, A; SEGUIN, M; PALAFOX, B;
2020
BMC health services research
The Long and Winding Road: A Systematic Literature Review Conceptualising Pathways for Hypertension Care and Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Brathwaite, R; HUTCHINSON, E; MCKEE, M; PALAFOX, B; BALABANOVA, D;
2020
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Nasa dugo ('It's in the blood'): lay conceptions of hypertension in the Philippines.
Lasco, G; Mendoza, J; RENEDO, A; SEGUIN, ML; PALAFOX, B; Palileo-Villanueva, LM; Amit, AM L; Dans, AL; BALABANOVA, D; MCKEE, M;
2020
BMJ Global Health
The household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 18 countries.
MURPHY, A; PALAFOX, B; Walli-Attaei, M; POWELL-JACKSON, T; Rangarajan, S; Alhabib, KF; Avezum, AJ; Calik, KB T; Chifamba, J; Choudhury, T; Dagenais, G; Dans, AL; Gupta, R; Iqbal, R; Kaur, M; Kelishadi, R; Khatib, R; Kruger, IM; Kutty, VR; Lear, SA; Li, W; Lopez-Jaramillo, P; Mohan, V; Mony, PK; Orlandini, A; ... MCKEE, M.
2020
BMJ Global Health
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