Institute for Health and Human Development

Dr Martin Wall

Position: Fellow in Economics

Disciplines: Economics, Social Epidemiology

Email: m.wall@uel.ac.uk

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Breif Biography:

I studied at the Centre for Labour Economics at the London School of Economics and, in 1990, completed a PhD on the use of panel data econometrics to investigate the determinants of investment and productivity in UK manufacturing. After a spell as an economic consultant in the transport and health sectors, I undertook an Overseas Development Fellowship in Botswana working in the research department of the Central Bank.

I returned to the UK after two and a half years and began work on a research project at the School of Oriental and African Studies into financial flows in sub Saharan African economies. Following this I moved to the Department of Trade and Industry and helped develop the models of energy use in the UK used to forecast emissions of Carbon Dioxide. These forecasts were used as a basis of the UK’s negotiating position at the Kyoto conference in 1997.

I also took a 3-month sabbatical to work as an economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance in Azerbaijan to create and operationalise a unit to collect, collate and analyse economic data on the Azeri economy. I moved from the DTI, in 1999, to work as an economic adviser for DFID on economic development in the countries of the Former Soviet Union. This led to a move to Imperial College in 2002 to more intensively study the economic impacts of HIV/AIDS on Russia as part of a DFID funded project. I moved to UEL in the IHHD in March 2006.

I am currently working internationally on the impact of International financial regimes for developing countries on the evolution of HIV epidemics; with funding from Department for International Development. In the UK. I am working on social and economic development in East London and its links with Health and Wellbeing.

Research areas

• development economics
• health and wellbeing
• analysis household datasets

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