Dr Lavanya Vijayasingham
BSc MPH PhD
Research Fellow
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
I am an interdisciplinary global health reseacher, thinker, writer and #HealthForAll idealist with work experience in academia, the UN system, government, the pharmaceutical industry, consulting and NGO settings in LMICs and HICs. I have published across multiple academic areas including patient experiences in managing chronic diseases, healthcare financing and access, disability and employment policy, gender in management, and business ethics.
Affiliations
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
Centres
Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre
Research
Research Area
Complex interventions
Drug discovery and development
Economic evaluation
Health care financing
Health care policy
Health inequalities
Health outcomes
Health services research
Health technology assessment
Occupational health
Organisational research
Systematic reviews
Capacity strengthening
Equity
Evaluation
Gender
Global Health
Ethnography
Immunisation
Impact evaluation
Mixed methods
Implementation research
Private sector
Qualitative methods
Discipline
Health economics
Anthropology
Policy analysis
Social Sciences
Management
Disease and Health Conditions
Chronic disease
HIV/AIDS
Malaria
Neurological disease
Tuberculosis
Disability
Non-communicable diseases
Coronavirus
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
World
Selected Publications
Sex and gender blind spots and biases in health research
2022
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health
Resolving sex and gender bias in COVID-19 vaccines R&D and beyond.
2022
Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
The gender responsiveness of social entrepreneurship in health - A review of initiatives by Ashoka fellows.
2021
Social science & medicine
Employment based health financing does not support gender equity in universal health coverage.
2020
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Ethics of care and selective organisational caregiving by private employers for employees with chronic illness in a middle-income country.
2020
Social science & medicine (1982)
Financing intersectoral action for health: a systematic review of co-financing models.
2019
Globalization and health