London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Anna Vassall is a health economist with over twenty five years of experience in economic analysis. Her first degree is in economics. She then worked in the NHS supporting funding/contracting. She then took an MSc in Health Planning and Financing at the LSHTM, thereafter working for DFID as a health economist in the UK and Pakistan.
This was followed by a period at Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Amsterdam working on health planning and financing, aid effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis and reproductive health in a wide range of low and middle income countries. Thereafter she directed and provided economic support to European Community and World Bank funded health sector reform and development projects in Yemen, East Timor, Syria and Sudan. Her PhD is in the economic evaluation of tuberculosis control.
She has worked at LSHTM since 2010 specialising on the economics of HIV, sexual and reproductive health, gender based violence prevention and tuberculosis. She has an interest in incorporating a health systems perspective into economic evaluation and priority setting methods. She currently leads the economic evaluation and priority setting group in the Department of Global Health and Development. She is lead member of the TB-MAC modelling consortium and sits on the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for the WHO's Global Tuberculosis Programme (STAG-TB). She currently is the senior economists on the costing analysis of the What Works programme. | Contact