We are a world-leading group of over 100 academics working on a diverse portfolio of health economics research, with work ranging from the development of innovative methods and empirical research, to policy engagement and impact.

Members have strong national and international partnerships and a wealth of experience in advising UK and other national governments, international agencies, and organisations.

Overview

The Global Health Economics Centre acts as the central body for staff and students across the School who study or apply health economics.

Centre vision

The Global Health Economics Centre aims to create an active health economics community at LSHTM that nurtures and supports early career researchers, provides training for collaborators developing an interest in health economics, and provides an external window into the plethora of health economics related activities ongoing at LSHTM.

The Centre’s vision is forward-looking and emphasises cutting-edge methodological development, rigorous empirical research that addresses both emerging health issues and endemic disease, excellence in health economics education, and working alongside policy and decision-makers to achieve policy impact. 

Strategic aims

Our strategic aims are to:

• Support novel health economics research and methodological development
• Strengthen post-graduate education in health economics
• Enhance academic careers and skills development in health economics
• Promote the understanding and use of health economics by academics, policy communities, and the public

We seek to improve collaborations among economists and researchers in other disciplines at LSHTM and with research groups and policymakers in the UK and around the world. Centre members’ expertise places them at the forefront in building the capacity of health economists and their policy communities – and embracing respectful collaborations worldwide.

Our teaching programme includes research degrees and multiple masters degree programmes taught in London and through our distance learning programme.

LSHTM economists link to others through iHEA and the UK Health Economics Study Group (HESG).

Co-Directors

• Andrew Briggs, Professor of Health Economics
• Giulia Greco, Associate Professor in Health and Wellbeing Economics
• Helen Harris-Fry, Associate Professor of Nutrition
• Timothy Powell-Jackson, Professor of Health Economics

Steering Committee

• Anne Mills, Emeritus Professor of Health Economics and Policy at LSHTM
• Kara Hanson, Professor of Health System Economics at LSHTM
• Aki Tsuchiya, Professor of Health Economics at the University of Sheffield
• Justice Nonvignon, Associate Professor and Health Economist at the University of Ghana
• Richard White, Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling at LSHTM
• Werner Brouwer, Professor of Health Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam

Theme leads

Economic evaluation and priority setting

• Sedona Sweeney, Assistant Professor in Health Economics
• Fiammetta Bozzani, Assistant Professor in Health Economics

Policy evaluation

• Laura Cornelsen, Associate Professor
• David Lugo Palacios, Assistant Professor

Financing and organisation of health systems

• Ryota Nakamura, Associate Professor

Preferences, behaviour and outcomes

• Pitchaya Indravudh, Research Fellow
• Ian Ross, Associate Professor

Macroeconomics of health

• Marcus Keogh-Brown, Associate Professor
• Henning Tarp Jensen, Associate Professor of Macroeconomics and Simulation Modelling

Committee chairs

• Research Degrees: John Cairns, Professor of Health Economics
• Teaching: Catherine Pitt, Associate Professor of Health Economics; Luke Vale, Professor of Health Economics
• Communications: Simon Procter, Assistant Professor