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Hilary Standing
Hilary is a social anthropologist specialising in health systems development and reproductive and sexual health, with extensive experience of policy engagement on issues of gender and health sector reform and women's reproductive and sexual health, and thirty years experience of work on gender and health. Interests include household level and gender aspects of health, formal and informal care systems, gender and equity in health, the management of organisational change in health sector restructuring and improving accountability within health systems.
Hilary is Director of the Realising Rights RPC which focuses on improving sexual and reproductive health and rights in developing countries. She is a Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health at BRAC University, Bangladesh and has worked extensively in South Asia.
She has worked extensively in rural and urban South Asia and convenes the international Gender and Health Equity Network.
Selected Projects and Recent Work
Thematic Expertise
Gender; Health; HIV / AIDS; Science and Society; Sexuality and Development.
Geographic Expertise
Central and South Asia; Sub Saharan Africa; China.
Selected Publications »»
- Lynch, A., Standing, H. and Cornwall, A. (2008) 'Unsafe Abortion: A Development Issue', IDS Bulletin 39.3, Brighton: IDS
- Bloom G., Standing, H. and Joshi, A. (2008) 'Institutional arrangements and health service delivery in low income countries' in Peters, D.H., et al (eds), Implementing Health Services Strategies in Low and Middle Income Countries: From Evidence to Learning and Doing, Washington DC: World Bank
- Bloom, G and Standing, H (2008) 'Future Health Systems: Why Future? Why Now?', Social Science and Medicine 66.10:2067-75
- Bloom G, Standing, H and Lloyd, R (2008) 'Markets, Information Asymmetry and Health Care: Towards New Social Contracts', Social Science and Medicine 66.10:2076-2087
- Standing, H., Mushtaque, A and Chowdhury, R (2008) 'Producing effective knowledge agents in a pluralistic environment: What future for community health workers?', Social Science and Medicine 66.10:2096-2107
- 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
- Standing, H (2004) 'Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial', The Lancet 364:970-979
- Standing, H (2004) 'Understanding the 'Demand Side' in Service Delivery', DFID Health Systems Resource Centre Issues Paper - Private Sector
- 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
- Standing, H (2002) 'Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity' , Cambridge: MIT Press
- Standing, H (2002) 'Towards Equitable Financing Strategies for Reproductive Health', IDS Working Paper 153, Brighton:
- Standing, H (2002) 'An Overview of Changing Agendas in Health Sector Reforms', Reproductive Health Matters 10:1-10
- Standing, H. and Bloom, G. (2002) 'Beyond Public and Private? Unorganised markets in health care delivery'
- Bloom, G and Standing, H (2001) 'Pluralism and Marketisation in the Health Sector: Meeting Health Needs in Contexts of Social Change in Low and Middle Income Countries', IDS Working Paper 136, Brighton:
- Lucas, H.Standing, H and Barnett, A (2001) 'Energy, Poverty and Gender in Rural China. A commissioned study report to ASTAE, World Bank, May'