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Jolene Skordis-Worrall
MCom PhD
Lecturer in Health Economics
UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905 2779
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
j.skordis-worrall@ucl.ac.uk
Expertise:
The demand-side of economics, i.e. the way that
patients interact with health services and the implications for this
for health equity and efficient service delivery; developing new theory
as well as pursuing the empirical application of that theory.
Biography: Jolene
is an Economist with over 10 years experience studying patient behaviour,
health systems financing and maternal empowerment. Jolene trained in Economics and
Demography at the University of Cape Town and carried out her PhD at the London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on “Understanding the demand for
health services in Cape Town: Implications for health equity and effective TB
care delivery”. Her applied research has focused primarily on the Economics of
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and maternal care, including treatment seeking
behaviour, the financial burden of service use and the economic evaluation of
interventions to improve outcomes. She also worked with the ICRC in
post-conflict Serbia for a number of years; advising on health-financing
mechanisms, survey methodology and data analysis. Her current work is
primarily focussed on i) links between treatment seeking behaviour and poverty,
ii) the impact of community participatory interventions on maternal
empowerment, iii) the economic evaluation of a number of large scale
interventions to reduce neonatal mortality and improve child development. She
is also involved in the development of a number of new research initiatives.
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