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Subrata RouthSubrata Routh, Abt Associates, Senior Advisor (Health Economics)
Subrata Routh is a doctor of economics. His diverse professional experience in managing field-based projects, providing technical assistance, conducting research and economic studies, accomplishing consulting work, and performing academic services spans over 25 years. Prior to joining CapacityPlus, Routh served as the team leader and senior project coordinator at the Operations Research Project in the International Centre for Health and Population (ICDDR,B) in Bangladesh and as health finance director of the USAID Project on Strengthening the Health Care Systems in Central Asian Republics (ZdravPlus I and II). He has also offered extensive consulting services to various government, private, and international agencies (UNIDO, UNICEF, UNFPA, DOMI/WHO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID). Routh is an enlisted health economist in the World Directory of Health Economists of the International Health Economics Association, and occasionally performs as expert reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals (Health Economics; Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition; International Family Planning Perspectives; Social Science and Medicine; Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved).

Expertise

  • Health systems development
  • Costing and economic analyses
  • Health financing and management
  • Health reform and policy analysis
  • Operations research
  • Project management

Selected Publications
Cashin, Cheryl, Olga Gubonova, Ninel Kadyrova, Nadezhda Khe, Evgeniy Kutanov, Mark McEuen, Sheila O’Dougherty, Subrata Routh, and Olga Zues. 2009. Primary health care per capita systems. In How-to manuals: Designing and implementing health care provider payment systems, eds. John C. Langenbrunner, Cheryl Cashin, Sheila O'Dougherty. 27-124. Washington, DC: World Bank and USAID.

Routh, Subrata, Aye Aye Thwin, Nadia Barb, and Anwara Begum. 2004. “Cost-efficiency in maternal and child health and family planning service delivery in Bangladesh: implications for NGOs." Health Policy and Planning 19, no. 1:11-21.

Routh, Subrata, Ali Ashraf, John Stoeckel, and Barkat-e-Khuda. 2001. “Consequences of the shift from domiciliary distribution to site-based family planning services in Bangladesh." International Family Planning Perspectives 27, no. 2:82-89.

Routh, Subrata, Shams El Arifeen, Shamim Ara Jahan, Anwara Begum, Aye Aye Thwin, and Abdullah Hel Baqui. 2001. “Coping with changing conditions: Alternative strategies for the delivery of child health and family planning services in Dhaka." WHO Bulletin: International Journal of Public Health 79, no. 2:142-149.

Routh, Subrata, and Barkat-e-Khuda. 2000. “An economic appraisal of alternative strategies for the delivery of MCH-FP services in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh.” International Journal of Health Planning and Management 15, no. 2:115-132.

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