Dr Lesong Conteh

 

Lesong Conteh is a senior lecturer in health economics in the Centre for Health Policy, in the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College. Her research focuses on low- and middle-income country (LMIC) health economics and health system research, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

She has an undergraduate degree from York University in Economics and Politics, a Masters in Health Economics also from York, and a PhD in Health Economics from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her thesis explored the role and measurement of perceived quality in the demand for malaria treatment.  

 

Prior to joining Imperial College she was a lecturer at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Director of the Intermittent Preventative Treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) Cost-Effectiveness Working Group at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and managed a project at the Medical Research Council, The Gambia investigating socio-economic influences on the demand for malaria treatment and prevention.

 

Previous and current research interests include:

• coordinating multi-country economic evaluations to identify the costs, cost effectiveness and equity implications of introducing interventions via different delivery strategies;
• understanding the roles and responsibilities of community health workers and volunteers in several West African countries;
•  investigating financial and non-financial incentives among community health workers;
• investigating consumer and provider interpretations of quality in the delivery of health care and how these interpretations compare and contrast.