The HEU has members from a wide range of countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. Staff have skills in health economics, management and public health. Our Postdoctoral Fellows and Honorary Academics are an integral part of the intellectual life of the Health Economics Unit.
equitable access to HIV and TB treatment; resource allocation and the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in decision-making
health care financing; purchasing of health services; equity in the health sector; access to and utilisation of health services; geographic allocation of health care resources; and public/private sector mix issues
economic evaluation, especially in relation to tuberculosis control and TB/HIV integration, public-private partnerships in health systems, and more recently economic considerations in vaccination
analysis of implementation processes for health system strengthening options from the organisational and institutional perspectives in order to examine the impact on equity
health system reform and financing; gender and equity issues in health and development
poverty analysis; equity in health and health financing; quantitative health economics and econometric research
access to and utilisation of health services, disease burden, health financing and applied microeconometrics on health issues
health policy and health systems; globalisation and health
health policy analysis and early childhood development services (0-4)
health policy, health systems research, health management; reproductive health; and maternal and child health
health equity; policy implementation; health systems; health care financing; health management
development of techniques for applying economic theory and principles to the health sector; challenging the prevailing orthodoxy of prioritising efficiency over equity considerations in health care decision-making
evaluation of models for the funding and delivery of health care; equity in health
globalisation, health inequalities, health policy, infectious disease
economics of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis; financial burden of service use; economic evaluation of interventions
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