Priority setting in global health
Timeframe: Jan 2005 - Dec 2009
Funder: Research Council of Norway
Ottar Mæstad
Research Professor / Special Adviser, Director Development Learning Lab
The project is part of a larger reserach project conducted in collaboration with Professor Ole Fritjof Norheim at Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care and Centre for International Health (University of Bergen). The main project activites are 1) Case studies of priority setting in health in Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, focusing on preventive efforts in HIV/AIDS, malaria and cardiovascular disease, 2) Development of a methodology for eliciting ethical preferences over health outcomes, 3) Elicitation of ethical preferences over health outcomes in developing countries, and 4) Application of ethical preferences over health outcomes to cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions.
Programme
Global Health and Development
Jan 2006 - Dec 2009