Prof. Maureen Mackintosh

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Professor Mackintosh is Director of the Open University’s inter-faculty Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD).

Her research interests include... The economics of public and social sector organisation, with particular reference to the economics of markets in social sectors, the organisation of health systems and their impact on poverty and inequality. The interaction of industrial change and social sector development, with particular reference to pharmaceuticals. The role of NGOs in access to essential medicines in low income countries. The economics of development with particular reference to Africa.