Global Health Economics and Financing Unit

The Global Health Economics and Financing Unit advances research on health economics and financing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We apply economic insights to translate effective health and health systems interventions into sustainable development.

There is a critical need for accessible, context- and policy-relevant health economics and financing research in LMICs, but a severe shortage of the expertise needed.

Working collaboratively with health economists and researchers in allied sciences in LMICs we generate robust, contextually grounded evidence while strengthening local research capacity and economic expertise.

Health economics is just part of the solution. We partner in multi-disciplinary research consortia to ensure clinical, behavioural and systems-level impacts inform our work.

Our research is underpinned by systems thinking to ensure the interconnections between financing and other aspects of health systems are understood, explored, described and evaluated.

Our work spans economic evaluations and priority setting, economic modelling and methodological development, equity assessment, health system and financing analyses, and behaviour, preferences and outcomes research.

We collaborate widely across LSTM, including with the Global Health Trials Unit, the Institute of Resilient Health Systems, the Centre for Capacity Research and the Centre for Tuberculosis Research.