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 an 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.