Staff

Professor Lucy Gilson

Lucy Gilson holds the appointment of professor both at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and is an honorary professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Oxon), an MA in Development Economics (East Anglia) and was awarded her PhD by the University of London. Over her career, her research has been driven by concern for equity in health and health care.

It has involved conceptual and empirical work on issues of health care financing, organisation, management and policy change. She has also played a leading role in developing the field of health policy analysis, and currently manages a continental initiative to strengthen training in this field. She has, as well, conducted collaborative research with colleagues in other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, and in Asia.

Research interests: Health policy and systems research.

Current research projects: She is a founding member and remains on the steering committee of EQUINET, the regional network on equity in health in Southern and East Africa, and has recently become a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. She is also the Associate Director of the International Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems, and has coordinated the Knowledge Network on Health Systems for the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Health Policy and Planning and an advisory editor (health policy) for the Journal of Social Science and Medicine.

Current teaching: Coordinator of the UCT Oliver Tambo Fellowship programme, to support the development of South African public health leaders

Contact

Email: Lucy.Gilson@uct.ac.za, Tel: 27 21 406 6272