Dr. Divya Srivastava

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Biography

Divya Srivastava is a health economist with expertise in health financing, digital health technologies, and comparative health policy. Her work has been published in journals such as Social Science Medicine, BMJ Global Health, and BMC Public Health Applied Economics. She has worked with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), leading projects on provider payment reform and geographic variations in health care to understand health system performance. Furthermore, she has collaborated with the European Observatory on Health Systems Policies and national institutions in Canada, the UK, and provided consultancy advice to international organizations like UNAIDS and various national governments including those of Finland, the UK, and Australia, as well as the private sector. Divya holds a BSc in Statistics (Honours) from the University of Manitoba, an MA in Economics from McMaster University, an MSc in International Health Policy (awarded the Brian Abel-Smith Award for her dissertation), and a PhD as a Merck Scholar from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Research Interests

Courses

HP420 Health Economics HP402 Measuring Health System Performance HP421 Economic Analysis Health Policy Low-Middle-Income Countries HP433 Health Care Regulation HP4B3E Measuring Health System Performance

Requirements for London School of Economics and Political Science

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Upper second class honours (2:1) degree or equivalent in a relevant social science discipline
Application Checklist
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