Hugo Turner

Dr. Hugo Turner is a health economics lecturer within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, focusing on the value for money of public health interventions for infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). His expertise includes costing healthcare interventions, cost-of-illness and cost-effectiveness analyses, and dynamic transmission modelling.

His work covers a wide range of infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases, dengue, hepatitis, HPV, hospital-acquired infections, and tetanus. He is particularly interested in evaluating large-scale preventive interventions such as mass drug administration, and in understanding how economies of scale and costs borne by patients and informal caregivers affect cost-effectiveness in LMIC settings.

He previously served as the lead health economist at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Vietnam, where he established the health economics research team. His research aims to support more efficient and evidence-informed healthcare policy in resource-constrained settings.

He also co-leads the health economics module for Imperial's Global Master of Public Health and teaches on the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford.