I am an Associate Professor in Health Economics with 18 years’ experience in the economics and financing of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. I completed my PhD in health economics at LSHTM with ESRC funding, and hold an MSc Development Economics. My work focuses on economic evaluation of WASH interventions, especially: (i) measuring and valuing quality of life outcomes (e.g. and ); and, (ii) preference elicitation using . For previous projects see . I co-organise the and run the blog. I am on the management committee of LSHTM’s Global Health Economics Centre. Before joining LSHTM, I established and grew a six-strong water team at Oxford Policy Management, leading WASH consulting projects the World Bank, DFID and UNICEF. Prior to that, I was in WaterAid’s policy team working on a variety of research and advocacy, including a period based in Timor-Leste
Affiliations
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Teaching
PhD supervision: I am lead supervisor of a Bloomsbury-funded PhD student (Omran Musa) and a DrPH student (Jahanzaib Sohail). I co-supervised a recently-completed DrPH student ().
MSc teaching: I am one of the module organisers for LSHTM's distance learning module on WASH. I also teach elements of in-person modules including Economic Analysis for Health Policy , Ethics, Public Health & Human Rights and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
MSc dissertations: I enjoy supervising MSc dissertations, two of which have subsequently been extended to produce journal articles ( and ).
Research
Ongoing projects include:
- A in Maputo, Mozambique, to value the SanQoL-5 index
- Systematic review of with soap
- Benefit-cost analysis alongside a in Malawi
- A programme of work on , including intra-household disparities.
- Contributing to a new measure of hygiene experiences
- Exploration of preference-based disability weights for menstrual health outcomes
- The role of intensity of promotion visits in the effectiveness of handwashing and water treatment
- A of methods for valuation of childhood undernutrition outcomes in economic evaluations
Selected Publications
