Amanda McCoy

Amanda McCoy is an experienced health economist with over fifteen years’ experience working in international health planning, budgeting and costing, as well as donor coordination. Born to a British father and Brazilian mother, having grown up in Switzerland, she is a French, Portuguese and English native speaker. She has worked directly for the Ministry of Health (MISAU) in Mozambique, first as technical assistance to the planning and cooperation department, and subsequently as a consultant. She has supported the development of the cost component for several strategic and operational health sector plans, working in close coordination with MOH colleagues, including from disease programmes such as HIV, TB and malaria. Her other roles have included a post in the WHO office in Hanoi as the officer for health planning and donor coordination, as well as working as a consultant on the economic evaluation of malaria control interventions and market analysis of the impregnated treated nets (ITNs) market. In addition to supporting PDMC saves lives project, her current role as a health economist at LSTM includes the cost analysis and evaluation of several TB screening and diagnostic tests and test combinations. Previous roles at LSTM included Amanda is a member of the team responsible the health economic component of work package 4, working in close collaboration with a team of health economists in Benin, Kenya and the UK to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of PDMC and explore the impact on national malaria programme budgets of scaling up PDMC beyond the study. She will build on her experience working closely with key MOH departments and disease programmes involved in PDMC, as well as developing data collection tools and cost-effectiveness models to evaluate potential delivery and adherence support strategies