Biography
Lorna Guinness joined LSHTM in 2001. Prior to this she was working as an
economist at UNAIDS in Geneva. She has a PhD in Health Economics and works on
the economics and financing of health care in low income countries with a
specific interest in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. She sits on the
advisory committees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported Global
Health Costing Consortium and the LSHTM's own Global Health Executive
Leadership Course.
Lorna was Module Organiser for the Distance Learning MPH course
"Introduction to Health Economics" as well as co-director of a short
course in "Health Economics and Financing" run for UNICEF, DFID and
Ausaid. She also lectured on LSHTM Masters degree study units: Economics
of Health Systems; Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Reproductive
Tract Infections; Introduction to Health Economics; and Advanced Health Economics.
In addition she has organised, facilitated and delivered training for programme
managers on the application of economic evaluation to HIV/AIDS programmes in
Africa and Asia. She is the co-editor (with Virginia Wiseman) of the second
edition of "Introduction to Health Economics" - a text book directed
at non-economists (http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780335243563.html). She continues to teach on the Distance Learning programme.
The focus of Lorna's research is the
economics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. She worked on the
economic evaluation component of the REMSTART trial (Reduction of early
mortality among HIV-infected subjects starting antiretroviral therapy) in Zambia
and Tanzania and an economic evaluation of scaling up harm reduction for
injecting drug users in the UK. She was also a co-investigator on SHIFT - a financing and benefit incidence
analysis of health care funding in East Timor and Fiji . Her research
experience in includes the costs and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS programmes
in South Asia and Former Soviet Union and the costs scaling up of HIV
prevention programmes in India. She also has interests in institutional
economics and the contractual relationships in the delivery of large scale
vertical health care programmes. She was a member of the the Social and
Mathematical Epidemiology (SaME modelling and economics) and Health Economics and Systems Analysis (HESA)
groups in the Department of Global Health.
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CV_Prof Lorna Guinness