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Policy & Global Development

Making the Case for Investment in Global Health – Confessions of a Mathematical Modeller

Date
21/09/2017
Hour
10.00 h
Place
CEK Auditorium
(Rosselló, 153) Barcelona
Speaker
Timothy Hallett (Imperial College London)

Encouraging governments to invest in new interventions that will generate health in the long-run for their populations, or populations they care about overseas, can be a hard sell. Mathematical modelling has come to be used to articulate these arguments powerfully –showing how investments now can yield large gains in health over the long-run, and this has been persuasive in raising funds for such major aid programs as PEPFAR and The Global Fund, and in changing government health policies in many other countries. But what lies behind those calculations? What are the intricacies in those projects that don’t make the headlines? And are there unforeseen consequences of which we should be aware?

Timothy Hallett, from the Imperial College London, will draw from his experience in conducting this type of analysis in a number of settings and explain some of what happens “Behinds the scenes”. It is an open seminar.