Andrew Creese

Andrew Creese is a senior health economist with WHO's Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy Department. His professional experience is in health systems financing, economic evaluation, and, most recently, pharmaceutical policy issues. After training at the London School of Economics and Oxford, Andrew worked in Epidemiology, Community Health, and Development Studies at the Universities of London, Sussex and Swansea before joining WHO in 1986. He held long term positions in Malawi (1969-71) and Ghana (1976-77) and has worked in over twenty countries, mainly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, both as a consultant with the World Bank and in his time in WHO. Andrew was a principal writer of the World Health Reports for 1999 "Making a Difference" and 2000 "Health Systems Development."