Research Group in Health Economics and Health Financing (HEHF)

Research ongoing

Estimating the distributional incidence of healthcare spending in sub-Saharan Africa: Benefit Incidence Analyses in Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Zambia

Development of a territorial observatory to trace health needs and health service utilization of the indigent population

Evaluating the economic impact of omitting completion axillary lymph node dissection in patients with T1/2N0M0 breast cancer and tumor-involved sentinel lymph node in Germany

Process and impact evaluation of the PM-JAY health insurance Program in India 

Evaluation of the embedded study component on quality of essential obstetric and immediate newborn care services and family planning services in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Implementation research for performance-based financing in Liberia

Economic evaluation and implementation research on global health diagnostics solutions

Research completed

• A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Of A USAID Performance Based Incentives Program To Improve The Uptake And Quality Of Essential Health Care Services In Malawi

• Economic evaluation of user fee removal/reduction policies for maternal care in Burkina Faso

• Assessing the impact of using performance-based financing to improve the quality of obstetric and neonatal care in Malawi

• Patterns of health service utilization and household health expenditure in rural Bangladesh

• Impact evaluation of RSBY in India

• Factors affecting the adoption, the implementation fidelity, and the sustainability of the Redesigned Community Health Fund program in Tanzania: A mixed methods process evaluation in the Dodoma region, Tanzania

• Impact evaluation for Health Results-Based Financing in Burkina Faso

• Agenda-setting criteria of abolition of user fees health policies in West Africa

• The potential of Microfinance Institutions to advance progress towards Universal Health Coverage through Micro Health Insurance:A mixed methods study in Malawi 

• Scoping studies on maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa

• An integrated surveillance system for infectious disease in rural China: generating evidence for early detection of disease epidemics in resource-poor settings

• Innovative tools and strategies for surveillance and control of dengue