HEU
Health Economic Unit

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

Susan Cleary

Director

economics of HIV-treatment and prevention, primarily in the areas of equity, efficiency and the costs of scaling-up

Di McIntyre

Professor

health service financing; equity in the health sector; access to and utilisation of health services; geographic allocation of health care resources; the role of the private health sector; public/private sector mix issues

Edina Sinanovic

Senior Researcher / Senior Lecturer

economic evaluation of interventions for tuberculosis and cervical cancer; scaling up health services; public-private partnerships in health care

Veloshnee Govender

Researcher / Lecturer

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

John Ataguba

Researcher / Lecturer

poverty analysis; equity in health and health financing; quantitative health economics and econometric research

Olufunke Alaba

Researcher / Lecturer

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

Ayako Honda

Researcher / Lecturer

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

Marsha Orgill

Junior Researcher / Entry-level Lecturer

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

Postdoctoral Fellows

Eshetu Worku

social determinants of health; health economics; applied econometrics; development; small enterprises and financing

Judith Daire

health policy, health systems research, health management; reproductive health; and maternal and child health

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

Stephen Birch

Honorary Professor

evaluation of models for the funding and delivery of health care; equity in health

Gill Walt

Honorary Professor


globalisation, health inequalities, health policy, infectious disease

Jolene Skordis-Worrall

Honorary Senior Lecturer

economics of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis; financial burden of service use; economic evaluation of interventions

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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