Dr. Philipa Mladovsky

Biography

Philipa Mladovsky is an Associate Professor in Health and International Development at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research interests include universal health coverage, health care financing, equity, and access to health care. With a multidisciplinary approach, she examines the political and financial challenges of providing health care to socially excluded populations. Philipa is particularly focused on analyzing the frames, meanings, and forms of conduct that reinforce or contest power relations among patients, health care providers, and bureaucrats in diverse contexts. Her work encompasses community-based health insurance in Senegal and mental health services for asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. Currently, she serves as Co-Programme Director for the MSc in Health & International Development and Co-Chair of the LSE Global Health Initiative. Prior to her current roles, she was the scientific coordinator for a large EU-funded research project exploring how social exclusion limits access to health services, and she has held a position as a Technical Officer with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies at the World Health Organization. Philipa holds a PhD in Social Policy from LSE, an MSc in Health, Population and Society from LSE, and a BA Hons in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.

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