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ALUMUNI INSIGHTS
60 seconds with...
Fernando Llorca Castro
Minister of Health for Costa Rica. Read the interview. ▶▶ |
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Measles and Migrants
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In the past two years, Europe has recorded more than 22,000 cases of measles: a sharp reversal of the 96% decline of the last 20 years. Why is it happening and who is at risk? In a paper published online in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Gemma Williams from LSE Health along with colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands, highlight the potential vulnerability of some migrants to measles. ▶▶
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Dutch Government commissions AMR analysis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest public health threats and is a top priority for the 2016 Dutch Presidency of the EU Council. On 9–10 February 2016, EU ministers convened in Amsterdam to deliberate European and global action plans to tackle AMR. To provide a platform for discussion, the Dutch government commissioned LSE Health to review current international and European initiatives targeting development of new antibiotics. The final report authored by Matthew Renwick, Victoria Simpkin, and Elias Mossialos, identifies key policy gaps in antibiotic innovation and outlined recommendations for the attending EU ministers. These recommendations call for a unified One Health, One Europe, One World framework for AMR. The report will be published shortly as a European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies publication. |
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High-need high-cost patients
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LSE Health and The Commonwealth Fund are leading a two-year project, involving a group of leading academics and health policy experts from ten countries, to compare and evaluate integrated models of care for high-need / high-cost patients. The working group met for the second time at LSE on the 21st and 22nd of January 2016. Discussions focussed on recent national policy changes, case studies of national care models, the group’s evaluative framework for care models and a literature review conducted by LSE Health. ▶▶
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LSE engages with Global Girls Research Initiative
LSE's Dr Ernestina Coast is a member of the recently initiated Global Girls Research Initiative (GGRI) consortium, as an expert on sexual and reproductive health. GGRI is a DFID-funded 9-year research project involving a multi-country longitudinal research programme focused on adolescent girls, led by ODI. The GGRI consortium includes leading academic institutions from Africa, Asia, MENA, the UK and the US; the world’s premier INGOs working on adolescence and gender; and two key think tanks with a global reputation as pioneers in policy research on gender and childhood, ODI and ICRW. ▶▶ |
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Psychoactive Substance Bill
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Dr Ornella Corazza of the University of Hertfordshire and Dr Andres Roman-Urrestarazu of LSE Health have submitted evidence to parliament about the importance of giving further consideration to Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs (PIEDs) in the Psychoactive Substance Bill 2015–16. Their evidence presents preliminary results on the rapid diffusion and motivations behind PIEDs use in society. Read the full submission. ▶▶
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Zika Virus Analysis
LSE's Dr Clare Wenham has been speaking to the BBC World Service and writing for The Guardian, analysing responses to the Zika virus outbreak. Dr Wenham argues that Zika is not a global health threat like Ebola, rather it is a disease of poverty, similar to other neglected but preventable tropical diseases. |
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Inter-ministerial symposium
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The annual Commonwealth Fund Inter-Ministerial Symposium on health care policy took place in Washington DC from the 7–9 December 2015. LSE Health helped define the event's agenda and conducted and presented research to support discussions. The meeting is a high-level policy conference attended by Health Ministers from countries including the US, UK, Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Canada and Switzerland. Healthcare system profiles developed for each country are now online. ▶▶
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Health systems management conference, Korea
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CEOs from more than 30 countries gathered to exchange views on health care systems effectiveness at a conference hosted by the Korean Health Insurance & Assessment Service (HIRA). Attendees agreed to establish a global network of CEOs of national healthcare purchasing and insurance organisations to encourage international dialogue. LSE Health's Professor Elias Mossialos will coordinate the network and host the next meeting in London later this year. |
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Ovarian cancer screening and mortality in the UK
Research published in the Lancet, by LSE Health's Alistair McGuire and colleagues, explores the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of ovarian cancer screening. ▶▶
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Value-Based Assessment of New Medical Technologies
Research from LSE Health's Medical Technology Research Group points towards the development of a Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) framework for assessing the value of new medicines. ▶▶
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The individual level cost of pregnancy termination in Zambia: a comparison of safe and unsafe abortion
LSE's Tiziana Leone, Ernestina Coast and colleagues find that despite a liberal legislation, Zambia still needs better dissemination of the law to women and providers and resources to ensure abortion service access. ▶▶
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Rethinking the appraisal and approval of drugs for type 2 diabetes LSE Health's Huseyin Naci and colleagues call for improvements in the regulatory standards for licensing, reimbursing, and adopting new preventive drugs to ensure that treatments for type 2 diabetes really benefit patients. ▶▶
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Global Handbook for Health Economics and Public Policy
A new three volume publication edited by Berkeley’s Richard Scheffler contains a number of chapters by LSE Health staff, including Panos Kanavos, Alistair McGuire, and Adam Oliver. ▶▶
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Cost of abortions in Zambia: a comparison of safe abortion and post abortion care
New research on abortion in Zambia by LSE's Ernestina Coast, Tiziana Leone and colleagues finds that the Zambian health system could save as much as US$0.4 million annually if those women currently treated for an unsafe abortion had a safe abortion. ▶▶
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Systems, not pills: The options market for antibiotics seeks to rejuvenate the antibiotic pipeline
New research explores the role of the options market in promoting antibiotic development using market forces. ▶▶
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Financial accessibility and user fee reforms for maternal healthcare in five sub-Saharan countries: a quasi-experimental analysis New research by Tiziana Leone and colleagues shows a clear positive impact on access when user fees are removed. ▶▶
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Effectiveness of interventions to provide culturally-appropriate maternity care in increasing uptake of skilled maternity care: a systematic review
LSE's Ernestina Coast and colleagues call for more evaluation of programmes incorporating cultural issues. ▶▶
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Dr Tiziana Leone has won research funding from the Titmuss Meinhardt research fund to study the onset of ageing in mid-life women in low income countries. Dr Leone will be presenting preliminary results at the University of Florence and University Bocconi in April/May.
Dr Zlatko Nikoloski and Prof Elias Mossialos have been awarded funding by the WHO/Global Fund to work on a project (TB-REP) whose goal is to improve TB and DR-TB outcomes in targeted EECA (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) countries through a health systems strengthening approach. The project will be managed by the Centre for Health Policies and Studies (PAS Center) together with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/EURO) and partners. LSE's input will focus on developing sustainable financing models for TB control in the selected EECA countries.
Matteo M Galizzi has been awarded funding by the LSE HEIF5 fund to pursue a series of innovative knowledge exchange strategies to advocate the case for ‘smart big data’ and ‘behavioural data linking’, that is, the integration of behavioural economics experiments within big datasets such as large longitudinal panels, administrative records, scan data and ‘big data’ analytics, and biomarkers and epigenetics data. The LSE will be the hub: facilitating dialogue, fostering the next generation of policy and business applications of ‘behavioural data linking’ and ‘smart big data’.
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LSE Annual Behavioural Seminar
17 February 2016
Email Adam Oliver for details
LSEHSC Formal Seminar
22 February 2016
Speakers: Professor Allan Colver, Newcastle University ▶▶
LSE Careers in Health Panel
22 February 2016
Full details are available via the LSE CareerHub or
email Jo Carrington
LSE Population Seminar: Tracking official development assistance for reproductive health in conflict-affected countries: 2002-2011
24 February 2016
Speaker: Dr Bayard Roberts (LSHTM) ▶▶
Health Society & MSc Global Health Film Screening
25 February 2016 (provisional)
Email Reece Soltani for details
LSE Population Seminar: On writing a population history of India
9 March 2016
Speaker: Prof Tim Dyson ▶▶
VII London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar
7 April 2016
Speakers: George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon), Antonio Guarino (UCL) ▶▶
The LSE Summit: Rethinking regulation and value assessment of medical technologies
8–9 March 2016 ▶▶
VIII London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar
26 April 2016
Speakers: Gary Charness (UCSB), Peter John (UCL) ▶▶
IX London Behavioural and Experimental Group (LBEG) Seminar
18 May 2016
Speakers: Matthias Sutter (Cologne), Ron Harstad (Missouri) ▶▶
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Eurohealth (Vol 21 No 4) on providing emergency medical care
Edited by Sherry Merkur, Anna Maresso and David McDaid, this issue’s Eurohealth Observer section looks at the challenge of providing emergency medical care, including articles on out-of-hours primary care and demand for emergency medical services, urgent care and the English NHS 111 experience, and waiting time policies in the health sector. ▶▶
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NEW HiT REPORT
The European Observatory have released a new Health Systems in Transition (HiT) report for France. ▶▶
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BLOG POST
No evidence of a higher burden of measles among migrant populations in EU and EEA ▶▶
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Brisk walk is better at keeping weight off than going to the gym ▶▶
New research by LSE Health's Dr Grace Lordan evaluating the effectiveness of different physical activities received extensive UK media coverage including in the Daily Mail, The Times, and the Edinburgh Evening News.
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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH POLICY CONFERENCE 2017
LSE Health will host the inaugural International Health Policy Conference at the LSE from 16–19 February 2017. This unique, multi-disciplinary event will bring together health scholars and policy makers from a range of disciplines to debate current international health issues. A call for papers and details of how to register are now online. ▶▶
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BLOG POST
Providing emergency medical care tackled in latest issue of Eurohealth (Vol 21 No 4) ▶▶
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Interviews are taking place in February for the new academic posts recently advertised. The Centre is recruiting three posts: Associate Professor in Global Health Policy, Assistant Professor in Global Health Policy, and Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy. Appointments will be made in March.
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NEW HiT REPORT
Life expectancy in Switzerland is highest in Europe after Iceland says new Health Systems in Transition (HiT) report by European Observatory. ▶▶
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RICHARD TITMUSS BIOGRAPHY
LSE Health has invited Professor John Stewart to write the biography of the late Professor Richard Titmuss, supported by the Brian Abel-Smith Fund. Titmuss, effectively the founder of the field of Social Policy, was Professor of Social Administration at the LSE from 1950 until his early death in 1973. For more information email Professor Stewart.
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BLOG POST
HEPL's reflections on challenges to health care systems over the next decade. ▶▶
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