MASHA SOMI
BArts/BEcon (Hons) ANU
T: +61 2 6125 3688
E: Masha.Somi@anu.edu.au

Following the submission of her PhD thesis in 2006, Masha took up an appointment as Visiting Fellow at ACERH (ANU) in 2007 to undertake further research on socioeconomic status and malaria. This work follows on from her PhD thesis and is focused on two main issues: first, investigating how households' expenditure patterns change when financing treatment for malaria (e.g. whether households reduce expenditure on food to finance additional expenditure on health care when experiencing a bout of malaria); and second, developing a framework for understanding the relationship between health and wealth (based on the concepts of vicious and virtuous cycles), using the findings from her doctoral work on the relationship between socioeconomic status and malaria in rural Tanzania.