 | Yohannes Kinfu Associate Professor - University of Canberra Health Economics |
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02.03.2017-28.04.2017
Health Systems efficiency and productivity change in low and middle income countries
The project has four inter-related aims. (1) To estimate health system efficiency at national and sub-national levels for countries which had achieved the MDG targets and those which failed to meet them (2) Examine the extent to which achievement of MDGs is linked with health system performance (3) To distinguish countries that are performing with efficiency from those that are less efficient and examine implications for resource use, and (4) To identify barriers and enabling factors associated with health system performance in different settings.
Yohannes is an economist and a demographer by training. His research interests are in medical demography, health economics and in the statistical and mathematical modelling of disease burden, risk factors and population processes in global context. In a career spanning over 15 years of post-doctoral experience, Yohannes had a unique opportunity to engage in preeminent institutions on global health across Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. In Australia, he worked for the University of Queensland and the Australian National University as a Senior Research Fellow and a Research Fellow, respectively. Yohannes has also worked for WHO in Geneva, Switzerland and served as an Associate Professor of Population Medicine at Qatar University. He was also Head of the Urbanization and Wellbeing Research Program and Leader of the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (NUHDSS) at the African Population and Health Research Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.Currently Yohannes is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, and an Affilate Associate Professor at the University of Washington.
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