Money for nothing? Evaluating the impact of health system reforms in low- and middle-income countries with Professor Tim Powell-Jackson
Inaugural lecture of Professor Tim Powell-Jackson
With a career spent almost entirely at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Tim Powell-Jackson will chart his journey as a health economist in the search of why some health system reforms work while others fail. He will offer a personal reflection on the people, places and topics that have inspired him, before discussing two key lessons he has learnt in the process. First, improving health systems requires learning from failure just as much as learning from success. Second, generating useful knowledge on health systems requires both innovate measurement and rigorous research designs.
The lecture will take place from 17.15 - 18.15, followed by a 1-hour in-person drinks reception in the Pumphandle Social.
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Professor Tim Powell-Jackson, LSHTM
Tim Powell-Jackson is Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-director of the Global Health Economics (GHECO) Centre at the School. He was an Overseas Development Institute Fellow in Rwanda’s Ministry of Health before starting a career in academia.
Tim has 20 years of research experience working in low- and middle-income countries, applying an economic lens to the study of how health systems work and how they can perform better. Much of his work involves the evaluation of policies that seek to increase the demand for and the supply of health care. His work on topics ranging from health financing and provider payment reforms to hospital management and the private sector have been published in leading medical journals as well as health economics and development economics journals. He has collaborated closely with research colleagues in various countries, including Nepal, Malawi, Tanzania and Brazil. Tim was a member of two recent commissions: the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission "A future for the world's children?" and the Lancet Global Health Commission on "Financing primary health care: putting people at the centre".
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