LORNA GUINNESS

MA(Hons) (University of Edinburgh), MA MSc PhD (University of London)

T:  +61  2  6125 3688
F:  +61  2  6125 9123
E:  lorna.guinness@anu.edu.au

Lorna Guinness is a lecturer in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and will be a Visiting Fellow at ACERH during 2010.  She is currently working on the economic evaluation of the Avahan Initiative — a large scale HIV prevention programme in India funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  She is also co-editing an introductory health economics text book and co-directing an annual short course in health policy and financing for UNICEF.  Her research interests include economic evaluation of HIV/AIDS programmes and the role of institutional economics in understanding contracting out of health services in low-income countries.

Further information about Dr Guinness is available from her entry on the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine web site.