Dr Justin Parkhurst is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching) in the LSE Department of Health Policy. He served for many years as co-director of the MSc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing programme, and was the inaugural Chair of the LSE Global Health Initiative.

Dr Parkhurst’s research interests lie in global health politics and policy, as well as the political nature of evidence use to inform policy decisions. He led a 5-year programme of work on Getting Research Into Policy in Health (the GRIP-Health programme) funded by the European Research Council – which has produced a number of outputs and publications (most open access) on the politics and governance of evidence. He also led (jointly with Dr Clare Wenham) a Wellcome Trust supported project on Building the Case for Health Sciences Research in Africa. Past work includes serving as a co-investigator on the LINK-Data for Decision Making project - a DFID-supported programme of work that strengthens the use of data for malaria decision-making in Africa, and work on health systems development and on HIV/AIDS in Africa. From 2025, Dr. Parkhurst will lead (Jointly with Dr. Freddie Ssengooba, Makeree University) a three year programme of work entitled ‘Systems of Evidence to Improve Health Policy in Africa’ (SEIHPA) which will study institutional forms and arrangements that provide science and evidence advice to health policymakers in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Rwanda (funded by the National Institute of Health Research).

Teaching

Head of Teaching, Department of Health Policy
HP401 Introduction to Health Policy and Politics
HP405 Social Determinants of Health
HP500 Advanced Health Policy and Health Economics (MPhil/PhD course)