Niamh Lennox-Chhugani and Jacque Mallender ’Demystifying health financing for integrated care’.

This episode features Dr Niamh Lennox-Chhugani in conversation with Jacque Mallender, an international health and public policy economist. They demystify the language of payment models and the different models we see emerging.

Jacque Mallender started her career as a government economist and then moved into research and consultancy working in Europe and North America, and more recently in North Africa and the Middle East. She now provides specialist economics analysis, advice, training and publications through Economics By Design Ltd, a company she co-founded in 2019. She is also consultant with the World Bank Group, and an Executive Committee member of the Economic Research Council.  

She has a long-standing interest in the economics of integrated care and, in particular, health financing and is currently providing training on health system payment models as part of the IFIC Integrated Care Academy Masters Programme.