Staff

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.

• Research
• Postdoctoral Fellows
• Associates & Honorary Academics
• Support

Research

Edina Sinanovic

Director

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

Di McIntyre

Professor

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

Sue Cleary

Associate Professor

equitable access to HIV and TB treatment; resource allocation and the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in decision-making

Ayako Honda

Senior Researcher / Senior Lecturer

analysis of implementation processes for health system strengthening options from the organisational and institutional perspectives in order to examine the impact on equity

Veloshnee Govender

Researcher / Lecturer

health system reform and financing; gender and equity issues in health and development

John Ataguba

Researcher / Lecturer

health care financing, equity in health and health care, economics of alcohol, impact evaluation, poverty analysis

Olufunke Alaba

Researcher / Lecturer

access to and utilisation of health services, disease burden, health financing and applied microeconometrics on health issues

Marsha Orgill

Researcher / Lecturer

health policy analysis and early childhood development services (0-4)

Lucy Shillington

Research Fellow

economic evaluation; access to health care in the South African setting; tuberculosis diagnostics; prevention of mother to child transmission

Nicola Foster

Research Fellow

economic evaluation alongside clinical trials; human resources for health; access to health services and TB diagnostics

Postdoctoral Fellows

Filip Meheus

health care financing, purchasing of health services, equity in the health sector, access to and utilisation of health services, use of economic analysis in infectious disease control, in particular for neglected tropical diseases

Honorary Academics

Lucy Gilson

Professor

health equity; policy implementation; health systems; health care financing; health management

Gavin Mooney

Honorary Professor

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

Gill Walt

Honorary Professor

globalisation, health inequalities, health policy, infectious disease

Support

Vanessa Daries

Fieldwork Manager
27 21 406 6537

Sue Machutchon

Oliver Tambo Fellowship Programme Administrator
27 21 406 6608

Allison Stevens

Communications Officer
27 21 406 6754

Latiefa Adams

Administrator
27 21 406 6558

Judy Boyes

Financial Administrator

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