Gemma Williams

Research Fellow

Biography

Gemma is a member of the Observatory’s London hub and is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  

She conducts comparative health systems research, focusing primarily on the health workforce, health financing policy, health inequalities, healthy ageing, digital health and migration and health. Her work on these topics has covered a number of regions including Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Gemma is an author and editor of Observatory studies, policy briefs, rapid responses and for the State of Health in the EU programme, alongside covering health system and policy developments in Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom. She is also co-editor of Eurohealth, the Observatory’s quarterly journal. 

Before joining the Observatory, Gemma worked as a Research Officer at LSE Health and as an ODI Fellow Health Economist in the Rwandan Ministry of Health. 

Recent publications

1. Williams GA, Liede S, Fahy N, Aittomaki K, Perola M, Helander T, McKee M, Sagan A. Regulating the unknown: A guide to regulating genomics for health policy-makers. Health Systems and Policy Analysis Series. Policy Brief 38. Copenhagen: World Health Organization 2021 (acting as the host organization for, and secretariat of, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies).  

2.  Williams GA, Jacob G, Rakovac I, Scotter C, Wismar M. Health professional mobility in the WHO European Region and the WHO Global Code of Practice: data from the joint OECD/EUROSTAT/WHO-Europe questionnaire. European Journal of Public Health. 2020; 30(4): iv5–iv11. 

3.  Williams GA, Cylus J, Roubal T, Ong P, Barber S. Sustainable health financing with an ageing population: Will population ageing lead to uncontrolled health expenditure growth? Economics of Health and Active Ageing Series. Copenhagen: World Health Organization 2019 (acting as the host organization for, and secretariat of, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies). 

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