Teaching, Training and Capacity Building

As Chair, I teach one introductory post-graduate course in Health Economics.

This course deals with the basic building blocks of the economic understanding of matters related to health and healthcare.

First, for the purpose of orientation, the course introduces the student to the concepts of health and health systems. The course covers various core topics, ranging from key elements of the health-development nexus to the demand for health and healthcare and key features of health insurance. The course proceeds with an introduction to the interpretation of health economic evaluations, followed by a comparative overview of alternative health financing systems, including critical perspectives on National Health Insurance. Students are also introduced to key concepts in behavioural health economics and their application in addressing health behaviours.

The course has an applied, policy focus that draws on a basic intuitive understanding of key theoretical principles to enrich these applied policy perspectives. The ability to think critically and in an integrative manner about these health economics issues represents a central overall feature of the course and the approach to teaching and assessment adopted in the course.”

I also teach an introductory course in Health Economics in the University of Bamberg’s new inter-disciplinary Public Health Master’s programme.

In the future, we will also offer a range of short course and micro-credential offerings on introductory and advanced Health Economics through Wits PLUS (PTY) LTD, so watch this space…