Turning data into evidence: how microeconomics is helping to tackle the adverse health impacts of poverty in south-east Africa and South Asia

Watch this YorkTalk with Dr Wiktoria Tafesse from the University of York’s Centre for Health Economics as she explains how health economists are enabling high-impact health policies across the world.

Wiktoria reveals how she and her colleagues are building on long-term research partnerships in countries such as Malawi and Pakistan to combat the negative health impacts of both poverty and growing affluence, such as the explosion in obesity.

She explores how the application of microeconomic tools and creative data analysis can provide the granularity and reality checks critical to understanding the consequences of large-scale health policies around the globe and here in the UK.

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