UCL Centre for Global Health Economics
We provide world-leading expertise in Health, Behavioural, Public and Development Economics, Decision Science, Statistics, and Mathematical and Epidemiological Modelling.
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.
Centre leadership team
Our work is led by a multidisciplinary team of researchers and community partners.

Centre Director, Professor of Health and Development Economics
Click to email. j.skordis@ucl.ac.uk
Co-Director, Professor of Health Economics
Click to email. h.haghparast-bidgoli@ucl.ac.uk