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Dr Lorna Guinness

HONORARY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

United Kingdom

I am a Health Economist with over twenty years of experience in low- and middle-income settings. I have worked within international funding agencies, as a consultant and in academia carrying out research, policy advice and training in financing and economic evaluation, efficiency and equity analyses in low income countries both in Africa and Asia.  I also work on the economics of interventions for vulnerable groups. 

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I am a distance learning tutor responsible for course design and delivery across modules in Introduction to Health Economics, Economic Evaluation and Impact Evaluation. I have developed a number of short courses on the economics and financing of health care for different funding agencies including UNICEF, DfID, the British Council, UNAIDS and AusAID. I supervise PhD students in the area of costing, financing and economic evaluation of healthcare programmes in low and middle income countries with a specific interest in cost estimation. 

Research

Research Area
Health economics
Economic evaluation
Health care financing
Global health
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Tuberculosis
Country
India
United Kingdom
Timor-Leste
Tanzania
Kenya
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

Healthcare cost accounting in the Indian hospital sector.
Chugh, Y; Sharma, S; Mehndiratta, A; Sharma, D; Garg, B; Prinja, S; GUINNESS, L;
2024
Health policy and planning
National hospital costing systems matter for universal healthcare: the India PM-JAY experience.
Prinja, S; Chugh, Y; Garg, B; GUINNESS, L;
2023
BMJ global health
Refining the provider payment system of India's government-funded health insurance programme: an econometric analysis.
Prinja, S; Bahuguna, P; SINGH, MP; GUINNESS, L; Goyal, A; Aggarwal, V;
2023
BMJ open
Cost Effectiveness of Strategies for Caring for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 in Tanzania.
Shah, HA; Baker, T; Schell, CO; Kuwawenaruwa, A; Awadh, K; Khalid, K; Kairu, A; Were, V; Barasa, E; Baker, P; GUINNESS, L;
2023
PharmacoEconomics - open
Adaptive health technology assessment to facilitate priority setting in low- and middle-income countries.
NEMZOFF, C; RUIZ, F; Chalkidou, K; Mehndiratta, A; GUINNESS, L; Cluzeau, F; Shah, H;
2021
BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH
Cost of scaling-up comprehensive primary health care in India: Implications for universal health coverage.
Singh, D; Prinja, S; Bahuguna, P; Chauhan, AS; GUINNESS, L; Sharma, S; Lakshmi, PV M;
2021
HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING
Process evaluation of health system costing - Experience from CHSI study in India.
Prinja, S; Brar, S; SINGH, MP; Rajsekhar, K; Sachin, O; Naik, J; Singh, M; Tomar, H; CHSI Study Collaborating Investigators,; Bahuguna, P; GUINNESS, L;
2020
PloS one
Examining Approaches to Estimate the Prevalence of Catastrophic Costs Due to Tuberculosis from Small-Scale Studies in South Africa.
SWEENEY, S; VASSALL, A; GUINNESS, L; Siapka, M; Chimbindi, N; Mudzengi, D; Gomez, GB;
2020
PharmacoEconomics
Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of existing needle and syringe programmes in preventing hepatitis C transmission in people who inject drugs.
SWEENEY, S; Ward, Z; PLATT, L; GUINNESS, L; Hickman, M; Hope, V; Maher, L; Iversen, J; Hutchinson, SJ; Smith, J; Ayres, R; Hainey, I; Vickerman, P;
2019
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
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