Philipa Mladovsky is Associate Professor in International Development. Her research interests include universal health coverage, health care financing and equity in access to health care. Her work incorporates multidisciplinary approaches to examine the politics of financing and providing health care for socially excluded populations. She is especially interested in analysing the frames of meaning and forms of conduct that reinforce and contest power relations among patients, health care providers and bureaucrats in diverse contexts, ranging from community-based health insurance in Senegal, to mental health services for asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. Previously, she was scientific coordinator of Health Inc. (Financing health care for inclusion), a large EU-funded research project which explored how social exclusion restricts access to health services despite recent health financing reforms in Ghana, Senegal and the Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Dr Mladovsky is currently the Co-Programme Director for the MSc in Health & International Development and Co-Chair of the LSE Global Health Initiative.

Prior to her role in the Department of International Development, Dr Mladovsky was a Technical Officer at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the World Health Organization.

She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the LSE, an MSc in Health, Population and Society from the LSE and a BA Hons in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.

A list of Dr Mladovsky’s publications with live links can be found here