Workshop on Economics of Maternal and Infant Outcomes - City Health Economics Centre (CHEC)

The program features a series of expert talks. Through these sessions, the workshop aims to deepen understanding of the economic determinants of maternal and infant outcomes and inform effective, evidence-based policy solutions.

Programme

10:00 - 10:15
Registration

10:15 - 10:30
Welcome and introductions

10:30 - 12:00
Session 1 - Chair: Bansi Malde

• Gabriel Facchini (Royal Holloway, University of London): “The Economics of Childbirth: From Global Patterns to Racial Gaps”.
• Timothy Powell-Jackson (LSHTM): “Hospital management practices to improve quality of care and reduce mortality for small and sick newborns in Malawi: the IMPRESS cluster randomised trial”.

12:00 - 13:00
Break

13:00 - 14:30
Session 2 - Chair: Victoria Serra-Sastre

• Joaquim Vidiella-Martin (Oxford): “Deprivation Payments, Regional Disparities in Birth Outcomes, and the Role of Community Midwives”.
• Sarah Cattan (IFS): “Workforce quality and early childhood development at scale".

14:30 - 15:00
Break

15:00 - 16:30
Session 3 - Chair: Agne Suziedelyte

• Damian Clarke (Exeter University): “Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil”.
• Ranjeeta Thomas (LSE): “Access to medical services in childhood and later life outcomes: Causal evidence from post-apartheid South Africa”.

16:30 - 17:00
Open discussion and closing remarks

17:00 - 19:00
Networking drinks