Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Henry Lucas is a statistician focusing on health management information systems and the financing of health care in rural China. He is also interested in micro-computer based economic planning models using social accounting matrices, information systems for human resource planning, and social indicators. He is Director, Statistics for Development Policy.

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Potential of Mining PPPs to Strengthen Health Systems and Extend Health Services to Underserved Populations
• ARCADE RSDH: Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health
• ARCADE HSSR: African Regional Capacity Development for Health Systems and Services Research
• Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium
• Review of UN Country Teams Engagement
• Brazil Indigenous Health System
• Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness

Thematic Expertise

Health; Science and Society; Social Policy; Monitoring and Evaluation.

Geographic Expertise

China.

Selected Publications »»

• Lucas, H. and Longhurst, R. (2010) 'Evaluation: Why, for Whom and How?', IDS Bulletin 41.6, Brighton: Blackwell Publishing
• Ir, P., Menc, C., Lucas, H., Meessen, B., Decoster, K., Bloom,G. and Van Damme, W. (2010) 'Self-Reported Serious Illnesses in Rural Cambodia: A Cross-Sectional Survey', PLoS ONE e10930. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010930 6.5
• Vlassoff, M., Shearer, J., Walkerm, D. and Lucas, H. (2009) 'Economic Impact of Unsafe Abortion-Related Morbidity and Mortality: Evidence and Estimation Challenges', IDS Research Summary of IDS Research Report 59, Brighton: IDS
• Brooks, S., Leach M., Lucas, H. and Millstone, E. (2009) 'Silver Bullets, Grand Challenges and the New Philanthropy', STEPS Working Paper 24, Brighton: STEPS Centre
• Lucas, H., Yang, H., Zhang, T. and Lin, V. (2008) 'Monitoring and Evaluation as Tools for Policy', in Vivian Lin, Guo Yan, David Legge and Wu Qunhong (eds.) Health Policy in Transition – The Challenges for China
• Lucas, H. (2008) 'Information and Communications Technology for Future Health Systems in Developing Countries', Social Science and Medicine 10.66:2122–2132
• Vlassoff, M., Shearer, J. Walker, D. and Lucas, H. (2008) 'Economic Impact of Unsafe Abortion-Related Morbidity and Mortality: Evidence and Estimation Challenges', IDS Research Report 59, Brighton: IDS
• Bloom, G. Champion, C. Lucas, H., Rahman, M.H., Bhuiya, A., Oladepo, O. and Peters, D. (2008) 'Health markets and future health systems: innovation for equity', Global Forum Update on Research for Health 5
• Lucas, H. Ding, S. and Bloom, G. (2008) 'What do we mean by ‘major illness’? The need for new approaches to research on the impact of ill-health on poverty' in Meesen, B. Pei, X. Criel, B. and Bloom, G. (eds), Health and Social Protection: Experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao
• Bloom, G., Edstrom, J., Leach, M., Lucas, H., MacGregor, H., Standing, H. and Waldman, L. (2007) 'Health in a Dynamic World', STEPS Working Paper 5, Brighton: STEPS Centre
• Lucas, H., Evans, D. and Pasteur, K. with Lloyd, R. (2005) 'Research on the Current State of PRS Monitoring Systems', IDS Discussion Paper 382, Brighton: IDS
• Bloom, G., Chilowa, W., Chirwa, E., Lucas, H., Mvula, P., Schou, A. and Tsoka, M. (2005) 'Poverty Reduction During Democratic Transition: The Malawi Social Action Fund 1996-2001', IDS Research Report 56, Brighton: IDS
• Lucas, H and Cornwall, A (2003) 'Researching Social Policy', IDS Working Paper 185, Brighton:
• Lucas, H., Barnett, A., Standing, H., Yuelai, L. and Jolly, S. (2003) 'Energy, Poverty and Gender: a Review of the Evidence and Case Studies in Rural China' , Brighton: IDS
• Booth, D and Lucas, H (2002) 'Good Practice in the Development of PRSP Indicators and Monitoring Systems', ODI Working Paper , London: Overseas Development Institute