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Dr Ian Ross

MSc PhD AFHEA

Assistant Professor
(Health Economics)

Room
411

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am a health economist with 15 years’ experience in the economics and financing of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. I completed my PhD in health economics at LSHTM with ESRC funding, and hold an MSc Development Economics. 

My work focuses on economic evaluation of WASH interventions, especially measuring and valuing quality of life outcomes beyond infectious disease. For previous projects see my Google Scholar page. Current projects include:

  1. A discrete choice experiment in Maputo, Mozambique, to value the SanQoL index (background)
  2. Systematic review of economic evaluations of handwashing with soap (protocol)
  3. Benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness analyses of handwashing in Malawi and Ethiopia
  4. Developing a measure of hygiene-related quality of life
  5. A programme of work on gender, sanitation, and quality of life

I co-organise the WASH Economics Conference and run the WASHeconomics.com blog. I am on the management committee of LSHTM’s Global Health Economics Centre. Before joining LSHTM, I established and grew a six-strong water team at Oxford Policy Management, leading WASH consulting projects the World Bank, DFID and UNICEF. Prior to that, I was in WaterAid’s policy team working on a variety of research and advocacy.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I co-supervise a DrPH student, and am lead supervisor of a Bloomsbury-funded PhD student starting in September 2023.

I have previously supervised five MSc students' dissertations, and have various ideas for students interested in WASH and/or economics, so please get in contact.

I lecture on the "WASH and Health" MSc module, amongst others.

Research

Research Area
Decision analysis
Economic evaluation
Hygiene
Sanitation
Systematic reviews
Water
Behaviour change
Environmental Health
Discipline
Health economics
Economics

Selected Publications

How does sanitation influence people's quality of life? Qualitative research in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique.
Ross I; Cumming O; Dreibelbis R; Adriano Z; Nala R; Greco G
2021
Social Science & Medicine
Costs of hand hygiene for all in household settings: estimating the price tag for the 46 least developed countries.
Ross I; Esteves Mills J; Slaymaker T; Johnston R; Hutton G; Dreibelbis R; Montgomery M
2021
BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH
Measuring and valuing broader impacts in public health: Development of a sanitation-related quality of life instrument in Maputo, Mozambique.
Ross I; Greco G; Opondo C; Adriano Z; Nala R; Brown J; Dreibelbis R; Cumming O
2021
Health Economics
Benefits and Costs of a Community-Led Total Sanitation Intervention in Rural Ethiopia-A Trial-Based ex post Economic Evaluation.
Cha S; Jung S; Bizuneh DB; Abera T; Doh Y-A; Seong J; Ross I
2020
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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