Gerard Abou Jaoude is Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Global Health Economics and a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Global Health. He specialises in health financing, economic evaluation, and the development and application of resource optimisation and costing tools to inform priority setting and health benefit package design.
Gerard has worked extensively with Ministries of Health and international partners, including the World Bank, WHO, and the Global Fund, to support evidence-based decision-making. His work focuses on costing health systems and programmes, modelling health impacts, and applying allocative efficiency approaches to improve the use of limited resources.
He has led and contributed to health system-wide and programme-specific analyses across a wide range of areas, including HIV, TB, and non-communicable diseases, and has supported health financing reforms and benefit package design in countries across Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South America, and South Asia.