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Center for Global Health Faculty

Damian G. Walker

Senior Associate

Adjunct Scientist, ICDDR,B; Honorary Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2006 to present

Academic Degrees

  • PHD

Departmental Affiliation

Departmental Address

615 N. Wolfe Street / Room E8146

Contact Information

Phone:
410-502-6023
Fax:
410-614-1419
Link:
SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

The efficiency of health care services and systems.

The generalisability of methods for, and results from, economic evaluations of health interventions.

Equitable financing of health systems

Role of the non-state sector in health care delivery

Keywords

International Health, Health Economics, Productivity, Efficiency, Economic Evaluation, Financing, Vaccines

Honors and Awards

Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society

Associate of Oxford Policy Institute, 2006 – present

Co-convenor of the Campbell and Cochrane Economics Methods Group: responsible for issues related to low- and middle-income countries, 2005 – present

Economic and Social Research Council Studentship, 1996 – 1997

Selected Publications

Frick KD, Walker DG. Economic welfare implications of differently structured vision care markets. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2008; 92(3): 301-302

Ho AM-H, Nelson EAS, Walker D. Rotavirus vaccination for Hong Kong children: An economic evaluation. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2008; 93(1): 52-58

Bishai DM, Shah NM, Walker DG, Brieger WR, Peters DH. Social franchising to improve quality and access. Harvard Health Policy Review 2008; 9(1): 46-59

Peters DH, Garg A, Bloom G, Walker DG, Brieger WR, Rahman MH. Poverty and access to health care in developing countries. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2008; 1136: 161-171

Gessner BD, Endang, Griffiths UK, Sutanto A, Linehan M, Molyneaux J, Mercer D, Mulholland EK, Walker DG, Steinhoff M, Mardiati N. Vaccine-Preventable Haemophilus influenza Type B Disease Burden and Cost-Effectiveness of Infant Vaccination in Indonesia. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2008; 27(45): 438-443

Walker GJA, Walker DG. Congenital syphilis a continuing but neglected problem. Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine 2007; 12(3): 198-206

Clasen T, Haller L, Walker D, Bartram J, Cairncross S. Cost-effectiveness of water quality interventions for preventing diarrhoeal disease in developing countries. Journal of Water and Health 2007; 5(4): 599-608

Rossi I, Zuber P, Dumolard L, Walker D, Watt J. Introduction of Hib vaccine into national immunization programmes: a descriptive analysis of global trends. Vaccine 2007; 25(41): 7075-7080

Dangour AD, Albala C, Aedo C, Elbourne D, Grundy E, Walker D, Uauy R. A factorial-design cluster randomised controlled trial investigating the cost-effectiveness of a nutrition supplement and an exercise programme on pneumonia incidence, walking capacity and body mass index in healthy older people living in Santiago, Chile: the CENEX study protocol [ISRCTN48153354]. Nutrition Journal Nutr J. 2007; 6(1):14

Haines AP, Sanders D, Lehmann U, Rowe AK, Lawn J, Jan S, Walker D, Bhutta Z. Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workers. The Lancet 2007; 369(9579): 2121-2131.

Mulligan J, Walker D, Fox-Rushby J. Economic evaluations of non-communicable disease interventions in developing countries: a critical review of the evidence base. Cost-Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2006; 4(7)

Shemilt I, Mugford M, Drummond M, Eisenstein E, Mallender J, McDaid D, Vale L, Walker D, The Campbell & Cochrane Economics Methods Group (ccemg) Economics methods in Cochrane systematic reviews of health promotion and public health related interventions. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2006; 6: 55

Walker DG, Jan S. How do we determine whether community health workers are cost-effective? Some core methodological issues. Journal of Community Health 2005; 30(3): 221-229

Walker D, Rheingans R. Cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2005; 5(5): 593-601

Trama A, Walker D, Fox-Rushby J. Introducing hepatitis B virus vaccine into the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in Bangladesh: does the existing infrastructure have the capacity? Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 2005; 23(1): 25-33

Pegurri E, Fox-Rushby JA, Walker D. The effects and costs of expanding the coverage of immunisation services in developing countries: a systematic literature review. Vaccine 2005; 23(13): 1624-1635

Walker D, Mosqueira NR, Penny ME, Lanata CF, Clark A, Sanderson C, Fox-Rushby JA. Variation in the costs of delivering routine immunisation services in Peru. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2004; 82(9): 676-682.

Graves N, Walker DG, McDonald AM, Kaldor JM, Ziegler JB. Would universal antenatal screening for HIV infection be cost-effective in Australia? The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2004; 190(1): 166-174.

Brinsmead R, Hill S, Walker D. Are economic evaluations of vaccines useful to decision-makers? A case study of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2004; 23(1): 32-37.

Kumaranayake L, Vickerman P, Walker D, Samoshkin S, Romantsov V, Emelyanova Z, Zviagin V, Watts C. The cost-effectiveness of HIV preventive measures among injecting drug users in Svetlogorsk, Belarus. Addiction 2004; 99(12): 1565-1576.

      
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