Prof. Jolene Skordis is a Professor of Economics, specializing in Health and Development. She is Vice-Dean (International and Advancement) for UCL’s Faculty of Population Health Sciences, Chair of the European Global Health Research Institutes Network, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Work, a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. She is a regular advisor to the World Bank, the Global Fund and the UK Government. Her research spans the evaluation of complex public health interventions, fiscal space for sustainable and scalable health service delivery, anti-poverty programmes, gender empowerment, social networks, equity and the impact of technology on the future of work and wellness.  Her work has directly influenced government policy in a range of countries.

 

The Money and the Machines: Financing and Governing Resilient Health Systems

 

Health systems are being tested by two forces at once. Money is getting tighter, and automation arriving faster than we can govern it. Technology serves patients and staff only under conditions that cost money: consultation, training and redesigned roles, cut first when budgets tighten. Fiscal pressure does not merely coincide with weak technology governance; it selects for it. This plenary sets out how to govern money and machines together, to build health systems that are more equitable, effective and resilient.

 

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