I am a health economist with 17 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: (i) measuring and valuing quality of life outcomes (e.g. SanQoL-5 and IWISE-4); and, (ii) preference elicitation using discrete choice experiments. For previous projects see Google Scholar. 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, including a period based in Timor-Leste
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
PhD supervision: I am lead supervisor of a Bloomsbury-funded PhD student (Omran Musa) and co-supervise a DrPH student (Seungman Cha). I am at capacity so cannot take on more PhD students at present.
MSc teaching: I am one of the module organisers for LSHTM's distance learning module on WASH. I also teach elements of in-person modules including Economic Analysis for Health Policy , Ethics, Public Health & Human Rights and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
MSc dissertations: I enjoy supervising MSc dissertations, and two have resulted in papers under review at a journal (here and here). I have various project ideas for students interested in WASH and/or economics, so please get in contact.
Research
Ongoing projects include:
- A discrete choice experiment in Maputo, Mozambique, to value the SanQoL-5 index
- Systematic review of economic evaluations of handwashing with soap
- Benefit-cost analysis alongside a handwashing and sanitation trial in Malawi
- A programme of work on gender, sanitation, and quality of life, including intra-household disparities.
- Contributing to a new measure of hygiene experiences
- Exploration of preference-based disability weights for menstrual health outcomes
- The role of intensity of promotion visits in the effectiveness of handwashing and water treatment
- A review of methods for valuation of childhood undernutrition outcomes in economic evaluations
Selected Publications
