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Financing and Access to Mental Health Services: Evidence and Challenges
About the Webinar:
— and how those financing arrangements shape who receives care, how much they pay, and whose needs go unmet.
Bringing together evidence from Ghana, Indonesia, Australia and the Netherland, the session looks at how financing arrangements from budget allocation to provider payments shape who receives care, how much they pay, and whose needs go unmet. Presentations from low-, middle- and high-income settings illustrate a range of methods offering both a comparative view of the challenges and a practical introduction to empirical evidence can be generated. Such evidence will provide scope for a broader discussion.
Speaker:
Lucy Owusu is a PhD student in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the IoPPN, King’s College London, working with the King’s Health Economics group. Her doctoral research, part of the NIHR-funded Y-MIND programme, develops context-grounded methods for the economic evaluation of a school-based stepped-care mental health intervention in Ghana, with the aim of informing intersectoral resource allocation between the education and
health sectors. Before her PhD she was a research assistant at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, working on the data collection, analysis and economic evaluation components of an NIHR-funded project on severely stigmatised neglected tropical diseases of the skin. She brings over eight years of community-based health research and advocacy experience across rural Ghana, and also works as a youth coach and mentor in her community.
Hasbullah Thabrany is Chief of Party of the USAID Health Financing Activity in Indonesia, implemented by ThinkWell Global, which works to provide the evidence base for sustainable health financing in Indonesia. He is Chairman of the Indonesian Health Economics Association (InaHEA), which he founded in 2013, and of the National Committee on Tobacco Control. A former professor and dean of the School of Public Health at Universitas Indonesia, he also chaired its Centre for Health Economics and Policy Studies. He was a key figure in Indonesia’s health care and social security reform as secretary of the presidential task force on social health
insurance reform, founded PAMJAKI in 1998, and has authored a book on the design and achievements of JKN. Since JKN’s launch in 2014 he has researched and evaluated its implementation. He holds a medical degree from Universitas Indonesia and MPH and DrPH degrees from UC Berkeley.
Long Le is a Senior Research Fellow in the Health Economics Division at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, and an external scientific writer for the Joanna Briggs Institute, University of Adelaide. He completed his PhD at Deakin University in 2018 on the cost-effectiveness of preventive and treatment interventions for eating disorders, and was an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow there from 2018 to 2022. He has extensive experience in trial-based economic evaluation and a strong focus on modelling techniques for assessing the cost-effectiveness of interventions for mental disorders. He currently supports the design, conduct and analysis of economic evaluations alongside clinical trials across a range of health conditions.
Francisca Vargas Lopes is Assistant Professor of Mental Health Economics at Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management and a Health Policy Researcher at the OECD. She has more than a decade of experience generating evidence to inform health policy and health technology assessment across academic, not-for-profit and corporate settings and in bridging academic research and policymaking. Following a MSc in International Health Policy and Health Economics at LSE she obtained her PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam, jointly from the Erasmus School of Economics and Public Health at EMC. Her research focuses primarily on mental health, covering a broad range of topics from promotion and prevention to access to care, treatment provision, outcomes and the wider social determinants of mental health. She specialized in the analysis of large and complex datasets and the use of econometric methods to generate causal evidence in observational settings. Her work examines the impact of health and social policies and interventions, including their implications for vulnerable populations and inequalities.
Organizers: Financing for Universal Health Coverage SIG & Mental Health Economics SIG