Background
The Technical Advisory Group on Economics for Environment, Climate Change and Health (TAG-EconECH) provides independent advice to WHO including on its strategic priorities and plans of action on specific topics relating to economics for environment, climate change and health.
Its members have expertise in several areas including, but not limited to the following:
- health economics
- environmental economics
- climate change economics
- labour economics
- public financing
- investment cases
- cost-benefit analysis
Objectives
This Technical Advisory Group:
- Provides independent evaluation of the scientific technical and strategic aspects of the economics for environment, climate change and health, with a focus on the global Investment Case for Health, Environment and Climate Change;
- Recommends priority topics related to economic evaluation and analysis for environment, climate change and health for consideration within the Organization and/or relevant technical unit;
- Advises WHO on its economic evaluation and analysis for environment, climate change and health, especially as it relates to the global Investment Case for Health, Environment and Climate Change; and
- Reviews and makes recommendations to WHO on disease and intervention priorities, economic models and estimates (e.g., of cost of inaction, intervention costs, economic benefits, and cost-benefits), and economic arguments for interventions addressing environmental, climatic and occupational risk factors.
Chair and members of the Technical Advisory Group
Professor of Health Economics at the University of York’s Centre for Health Economics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This expert is from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Learn moreProfessor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This expert is from Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Economics in the Department of Economics and Public Policy at the Imperial College London, Business School, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This expert is from Switzerland.
Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA. This expert is from Canada and the USA.
Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Yale University, USA. This expert is from the USA.
Henry Baldwin Professorial Research Fellow in Health Systems Sustainability, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Australia. This expert is from Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Assistant Professor in Community Medicine at ESIC Medical College and Hospital, India. This expert is from India.
Assistant Professor in Community Health Sciences at Aga Khan University, Pakistan. This expert is from Pakistan.
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Health Economics and Demography at Shoin University, Japan. This expert is from Japan.
Senior Lecturer in Global Health at the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This expert is from Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Temporary advisers
Cost Effectiveness Analysis Reader at the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Centre, USA. This expert is from Ghana.
Associate Professor of Health Economics at the Clinical Hub for Interventional Research (CHOIR), John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Australia. This expert is from Viet Nam and New Zealand.
Deputy Director, Center for Health Decision Science, and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health Decision Science and Center for Risk Analysis, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA. This expert is from the USA.
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