Kara Hanson

Professor

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

United Kingdom

Kara Hanson is Professor of Health System Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has over 30 years' experience working on health system financing and organisation in low- and middle-income countries. Her research has addressed resource mobilisation and strategic purchasing, the role of the private sector in health systems in low- and middle-income countries and the economics of malaria and malaria control interventions She has led a number of large multi-country research programmes and consortia, including RESYST, a DFID-funded research programme consortium. She is co-chair of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Financing Primary Health Care, and of the UHC2030 Transition and Sustainability Working Group.
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1 FEB, 2020 09:00-10-00 hrs. PL2 Making Health Financing for UHC SAFE