Gillian Turner has more than 25 years experience, as a health economist and health systems specialist in Africa and South Asia, with a focus on addressing poverty and inequity. Her experience encompasses health systems - including health finanicng - reform, sexual and reproductive health and rights, nutrition and wider determinants of health. She has led policy, strategy, and programme development; supported the design of international financing mechanisms; designed and supervised economic and equity research processes; undertaken impact, economic, equity, and process evaluations; designed accountability mechanisms; and led multilateral coordination processes. 

 

Gillian’s experience spans conducting and commissioning economic and equity research, providing and commissioning technical assistance, developing policy (with UK and LMIC governments), and managing funding. She has worked with academic institutions in the UK and overseas, bilateral development partners, multilateral organisations, low and low-middle income country governments, and NGOs. She is enthusiastic about using health economic methods and approaches to contribute to making health systems stronger, more equitable and more resilient, and to foster systems thinking. Gillian is passionate about developing others, and keen to harness and develop the technical skills of experienced and emerging health economists, and to build health economic literacy among non-economists.

Gillian teaches Health Economics and Health Financing.