I joined the school as a research fellow in health economics in 2021, after 2 years as a teaching fellow in the department of Health Policy at the LSE. Prior to that, my previous role as a Research Associate with King’s College London, focused on the economic evaluation of interventions in both physical and mental health. My past work experience includes a researcher role at the Ministry of Health in Botswana on projects evaluating the health financing system and assessing national health accounts. I also worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a Project Associate responsible for monitoring and evaluation of programs in Botswana. I work on the cost-effectiveness of interventions -within randomised controlled trials and apply decision modelling techniques. My interest extends to adapting and applying health economics methods in low- and middle-income countries, and to support this, I published a book chapter, assessing Economic evaluations in global mental health.
Affiliations
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Teaching
I am a seminar leader for the economic evaluation module and a tutor for the Health Policy Planning and Financing MSc. I also lead a seminar on the appraisal of cost-effectiveness analysis as part of the Applying Public Health Principles module, on Public health for development MSc.
Research
My research is primarily on the economic evaluation (mainly cost-effectiveness) of health interventions in both physical and mental health.
My current research is within the Skin Health Africa Research Programme in Ethiopia and Ghana, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (SHARP). The programme aims to improve the experiences of people with neglected tropical diseases of the skin (or Skin NTDs). My role specifically supports the development and implementation of economic studies of the programme, with the following outputs;
- A systematic review of economic evaluations of interventions for Neglected Tropical Skin Diseases
- A conceptual model for assessing the cost-effectiveness of integrated case finding and management strategies for Neglected Tropical Skin Diseases
- A cost-effectiveness model of integrated case finding and management strategies for Neglected Tropical Skin Diseases
My current research is within the Skin Health Africa Research Programme in Ethiopia and Ghana, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (SHARP). The programme aims to improve the experiences of people with neglected tropical diseases of the skin (or Skin NTDs). My role specifically supports the development and implementation of economic studies of the programme, with the following outputs;
- A systematic review of economic evaluations of interventions for Neglected Tropical Skin Diseases
- A conceptual model for assessing the cost-effectiveness of integrated case finding and management strategies for Neglected Tropical Skin Diseases
- A cost-effectiveness model of integrated case finding and management strategies for Neglected Tropical Skin Diseases
Disease and Health Conditions
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical skin diseases
HIV/AIDS
Mental health
Buruli ulcer
Yaws
Onchocerciasis
Lymphatic filariasis
Scabies
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
European Union
Selected Publications
Economic threshold analysis of delivering a task-sharing treatment for common mental disorders at scale: the Friendship Bench, Zimbabwe.
2021
Evidence-based mental health
Patient Preferences for Antipsychotic Drug Side Effects: A Discrete Choice Experiment
2021
Schizophrenia bulletin open
Costing the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Economic Evaluation of Hypothetical Suppression Policy in the United Kingdom.
2020
Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research