THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

ANALYSING HEALTH SYSTEMS:
LESSONS FROM COVID-19

Develop a technical understanding of health system performance and responses, specifically through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic

Duration

6 weeks, excluding
orientation

Effort

7–10 hours per week,
entirely online

Learning Format

Weekly modules,
flexible learning

ON COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE, YOU’LL WALK AWAY WITH:

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A nuanced understanding of the social, political, and policy structures that influence the readiness of health systems to deal with pandemics.

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The ability to technically assess health system performance by leveraging data integration to better manage current and future healthcare needs.

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An analytical view of the impact of COVID-19 on health systems, and how factors such as resource constraints and funding influence a global response.

4

A comprehensive toolkit of the strategies and tactics required to reshape health systems and facilitate high-quality care.

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This Analysing Health Systems: Lessons From COVID-19 online certificate course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 50 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on you. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

COURSE CURRICULUM

Over the duration of this online short course, you’ll work through the following modules:

Module 1 Introduction to COVID-19 politics and policy
Contextualise national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic within a broader political landscape and examine the value of a multidisciplinary approach to pandemics.

Module 2 Inequitable suffering
Examine how societies produce unequal health outcomes, and how they may be reinforced or disrupted by pandemic-response policies.

Module 3 The health and economic consequences of COVID-19
Learn about resource constraints and funding arrangements in the healthcare system, and how countries have balanced health and economic concerns in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Module 4 A comparative perspective on assessing the COVID-19 health system impact
Learn how to critically interpret and assess the comparisons that are made between health systems, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study.

Module 5 Healthcare quality and the impact of COVID-19
Learn about quality in healthcare, and the ways care provision and quality have been rethought due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Module 6 Health system surveillance
Learn about monitoring and assessing health system performance, and explore the potential of data integration for managing healthcare needs.

Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.

COURSE CONVENORS

Dr Clare Wenham

Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, LSE

Clare is the director of the MSc in global health policy and sits on the steering committee of the LSE Global Health Initiative. She previously worked at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, delivering a series of projects relating to surveillance and transmission of infectious disease. She has a PhD in international relations, and has advised and/or consulted for UN Women, European Parliament, UNFPA, Asian Development Bank, and UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology.

Dr Miqdad Asaria

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy

Miqdad is a health economist with extensive experience in both academic and policymaking settings. His research interests include health inequalities, health financing, healthcare prioritisation, and healthcare management with a particular focus on the health systems in India and the UK. He currently holds a fellowship from The Health Foundation to investigate the role management plays in hospital performance. In addition to his position at LSE, Miqdad also holds an adjunct position as assistant professor at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi, India, and a visiting position at the University of York, UK.

Professor Andrew Street

Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Policy, LSE

Before joining LSE, Andrew was director of the health policy team in the Centre for Health Economics, and director of the Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit at the University of York. He has published numerous articles on topics including health system productivity, hospital efficiency, performance measurement, patient reported outcomes, and integrated care. Andrew has worked for health ministries in England and Australia, and was editor of the Journal of Health Economics from 2006–2018.

Dr Rocco Friebel

Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, LSE

Rocco is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, as well as the director of the Executive MSc Evaluation of Health Care Interventions and Outcomes in collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. He also teaches courses in health economics, quality and outcomes in cardiovascular sciences, and health system performance measurement. Rocco specialises in the assessment of quality of care delivered by health systems around the world, and his research investigates the impact of national-level and regional policies, and their implications for health system finances and quality of care for patients. His findings have been published in high-impact economics, policy, and medical journals, including Health Economics, Health Policy, and The Lancet.

Dr Irene Papanicolas

Associate Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Policy, LSE

Irene’s teaching and research focuses on the performance assessment of health systems, examining existing approaches used to measure and incentivise the performance of health services within those systems, as well as the methodologies used to carry out international comparisons and benchmarking. She presented aspects of her work at the 2018 TEDMED conference, and has published in leading medical journals as well as contributed to numerous books. Irene has been the principal or co-investigator on research projects exploring the international comparisons of health systems, funded by the Commonwealth Fund and the Health Foundation. She’s currently co-investigator of the International Collaboration on Costs, Outcomes and Needs in Care Collaborative, a visiting scientist at the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, and associate editor of the journal Health Policy.

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