The HEU supervises a limited number of students undertaking a PhD by dissertation. Enquiries can be directed to the PhD programme coordinator.

PhD candidates

This year, we are supervising/co-supervising the following PhD students:

Mr John E. Ataguba

PhD title: Distributional impact of health care finance in South Africa
Supervisor: Prof Ingrid Woolard (School of Economics)
Co-supervisor: Prof. Diane McIntyre (HEU)
Email: john.ataguba@uct.ac.za
(this PhD is registered with the School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce)

Ms Naomi Lince

PhD title: Economic investigations regarding abortion services in South Africa
Supervisor: Dr Edina Sinanovic (HEU)
Co-supervisor: Prof Di Cooper
Email: nlince@ibisreproductivehealth.org

Mr John Ashmore

PhD title: Dual practice and health worker retention in the public hospital sector of South Africa
Research interests: human resources for health and health systems capacity in Africa; HIV policy; foreign aid; mixed methodology
Supervisor: Prof Lucy Gilson
Email: john.ashmore@uct.ac.za

Mr James Akazili

PhD title: Equity in healthcare financing in Ghana (submitted in December 2009)
Research interests: equity and efficiency in healthcare research, economic evaluation of health programmes, social science perspectives of malaria, health sector reform in Africa
Supervisor: Prof Di Mcintyre
Email: akazjames@yahoo.com

Ms. Bertha Garshong

PhD title: Benefit Incidence of Health Spending in Ghana
Research interests: health care financing, health policy analysis
Supervisor: Prof. Di McIntyre
Email: bgarshong@yahoo.com, bertha.garshong@hru-ghs.org

Mr Rory Leisegang

PhD title: Cost-effectiveness of models of antiretroviral treatment delivery
Research interests: cost-effectiveness, modelling, outcome analysis
Supervisor: Dr Susan Cleary (with Prof Gary Maartens)
Email: Rory.Leisegang@uct.ac.za

Ms Maite Irurzun Lopez

PhD title: Absorptive capacity to finance HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: Where are the bottlenecks?
Research interests: Public health financing; HIV/AIDS and development; public health system strengthening

Supervisor: Dr Edina Sinanovic (HEU)
Co-supervisor: Frikkie Booysen (University of Bloomfontein)
Email: maiteirurzun@gmail.com

Recent PhD graduates

Dr Okore Okorafor

PhD title: Fiscal federalism and equity in the financing of primary healthcare: the case for South Africa (Download one-page summary)
Research interests: health financing, equity, resource allocation, econometrics, socioeconomic determinants of health
Supervisor: Prof Di McIntyre
Email: Okore.Okorafor@gmail.com