Anne Mills

Anne Mills, Ph.D., is professor of health economics and policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has more than 20 years of experience in research pertaining to health economics in developing countries and has published widely in the fields of health economics and health planning, including books on the role of government in health in developing countries, health planning in the United Kingdom, decentralization, health economics research in developing countries, and the public-private mix. Her most recent research interests have been in the organization and financing of health systems, including the evaluation of contractual relationships between the public and private sectors and the application of economic evaluation techniques to improve the efficiency of disease control programs.

Dr. Mills has had extensive involvement in supporting the health economics research activities of the World Health Organization's Tropical Disease Research Programme. She founded, and is head of, the Health Economics and Financing Programme, which has become one of the world's leading groups in developing and applying theories and techniques of health economics to increase knowledge on how best to improve the equity and efficiency of developing countries' health systems. She has acted as adviser to a number of multilateral and bilateral agencies-notably, the United Kingdom Department for International Development and the World Health Organization. She guided the creation of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and chairs its board. Most recently, she has been a member of the Commission for Macroeconomics and Health and cochair of its working group on improving the health outcomes of the poor.