UCL Centre for Global Health Economics

About the Centre

The Centre's research expertise spans two areas: (a) economic evaluations within pragmatic trials of complex interventions to improve maternal and child health, nutrition, and non-communicable diseases, and exploratory work to identify scalable and sustainable service delivery mechanisms for early child development; (b), and macroeconomic modelling of efficient health spending on HIV, tuberculosis, nutrition and universal health coverage.  The Centre also offers training and capacity building in global health economics.

Strategic Priorities

• Undertake innovative research in economics, decision science, statistics, and mathematical and epidemiological modelling to address global health challenges.
• Investigate the impact of economic, social, cultural, and policy factors on the demand for and supply of healthcare services.
• Conduct rigorous economic evaluations of global health trials, including analyses of scalability, sustainability, and affordability.
• Use epidemiological, statistical, and mathematical modelling to assess disease burden, intervention effectiveness, and optimal resource allocation for national health policy.
• Offer world-class training in global health economics through a new MSc in Health Economics and Decision Science, contributions to the MSc in Global Health and Development, support for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and a summer internship programme.