Equity Informative
Economic Evaluation

Equity in health and healthcare is an area of growing global policy interest.

This group will seek to be at the forefront of the application and development of methods for using economic evaluation to provide useful information about equity impacts and trade-offs in health care and public health decision-making.

The group will seek to be inclusive and eclectic. We welcome researchers working on equity issues in both HIC and LMIC countries, using diverse methods, and addressing the full range of distributional equity concerns that arise in economic evaluation and health technology assessment.

Objectives

  • To encourage the development and synthesis of methods for using economic evaluation to address equity concerns.
  • To provide a networking space to facilitate international collaboration between health economists interested in equity and economic evaluation, specifically related to developing early career researcher networks.
  • To share information on projects, publications and training resources in order to keep members up-to-date with the latest research and methods in the field.
  • To ensure that issues confronting LMIC researchers (e.g. severe data constraints) are recognised and seen as a core consideration in developing methods of equity informative economic evaluation.
  • To draw on expertise from other academic disciplines and the policy sphere in order to create a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems.

Upcoming Events

Coming soon!

Past Events

  • Social variation in health opportunity cost in England – April 28, 2021
  • Methods for incorporating equity into economic evaluation – October 27, 2020
  • Empirical examples of equity-informative economic evaluation in LMICS – May 19, 2020

Convenors

Mieraf Taddesse Tolla

Senior Researcher, Addis Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting, Ethiopia

Mieraf Taddesse Tolla

Mieraf Taddesse Tolla is a medical doctor by training and holds a Master degree in Public Health (2009) from the Braun Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and a PhD (2018) from the    University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Her PhD dissertation focuses on financial risk protection, cost-effectiveness analysis, and extended cost-effectiveness analysis of prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Ethiopia. Mieraf did her postdoctoral fellowship (2018 - 2020) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to joining the PhD program, Mieraf served as a public health specialist at the World Bank country office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2010 - 2014) and worked as a general practitioner in various health facilities (2006 - 2008) both in urban and rural settings in Ethiopia. She is currently working as a senior researcher at the Addis Center for Ethics and Priority Setting based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her research interest covers priority setting in health care, financial risk protection and economics of undernutrition in children in low-income settings. Learn more

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Naomi Gibbs

Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK

Naomi Gibbs

Naomi joined the Centre for Health Economics in January 2022 following completion of her PhD in Public Health and Economic Decision Science with the University of Sheffield. Naomi's PhD focused on decision modelling to appraise cost and health outcomes of a hypothetical minimum unit pricing policy for alcohol in South Africa. Her work focused on differential policy impact by equity relevant subgroups and included considerable local stakeholder engagement, leading to further work with both national and provincial governments. Her undergraduate degree was a BSc in Economics from the University of Manchester, graduating with the Manchester School Prize for Economics, and she has an MSc in Economics and Health Economics from Sheffield, funded by a UK NIHR studentship.

In between her undergraduate and postgraduate training she worked in the third sector, initially working with refugees in Sheffield before moving to the British Red Cross facilitating leadership development and broader learning provision, before joining the University of Sheffield in 2015 to work on a national evaluation of a programme supporting individuals with multiple needs (substance misuse, homelessness, mental ill health and reoffending).  During this time she gained experience designing and delivering seminars, webinars and conferences. Read more

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Richard Cookson

Professor, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK

Richard Cookson

Richard Cookson is a professor at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York, and an honorary public health academic, Public Health England. He has helped to pioneer “equity-informative” methods of health policy analysis including methods of distributional cost-effectiveness analysis; methods of health equity monitoring for healthcare quality assurance; and methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequality. He has co-chaired various international working groups on equity, and his UK public service includes working in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and serving on NICE advisory committees and the NHS Advisory Committee for Resource Allocation.

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Stéphane Verguet

Assistant Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

Stéphane Verguet

Stéphane Verguet is Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Verguet’s multidisciplinary research focuses on health decision science and priority setting, particularly the development of mathematical and computational decision-making models to better design health policies. His research interests include health economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, equity, and health systems performance. Most recently, he has been working on the estimation of non-health benefits, particularly the poverty alleviation benefits, of health policies and interventions. Learn more

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Saudamini Dabak

Head of International Unit, Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Saudamini Dabak

Saudamini Dabak is the Head of HITAP’s International Unit (HIU). She started working at HITAP as an Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellow in 2015. At HITAP, Saudamini has supported Health Technology Assessment (HTA) initiatives in Asia and Africa and has also been involved in conducting health systems research. Prior to working at HITAP, Saudamini worked at the World Bank Group. She completed her Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), USA, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, University of Mumbai, India. Read more

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Victoria Hauwa Ibrahim

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Nassarawa State University. Member, Technical Working Group (TWG), Federal Ministry of finance, Budget and National Planning, Nigeria

Victoria Hauwa Ibrahim

Victoria Hauwa Ibrahim has a Ph.D. in economics from Nassarawa State University, Nigeria, a master’s degree in Political economy from University of Essex and a B.Sc. in economics. She was appointed as a member of the technical working committee with the mandate to prepare the Medium-Term Development Plan for 2021-2025 and preparation of the development plan tagged “Agenda 2050”.

Her research interests are in Political economy, Health economics and economics of inequality. Victoria’s research encompasses both why the increasing inequalities in asses to health and educational system and how to improve them for socioeconomic development of African region.

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