Harry Coleman
- Department
- Health Systems Strengthening
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- Advisor
- Phone
- +31205688260
- h.coleman@kit.nl
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Harry completed his master’s degree (MSc.) in Global Health from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he is currently finishing a PhD.
His PhD focuses on the relationship between housing insecurity (primarily, homelessness) and health, and interventions in healthcare outreach, local policy and advocacy that can leaven the ill health and social disadvantage associated with inadequate housing conditions. The research was engaged with the Centre for Equity Studies in New Delhi, India that manages healthcare outreach teams for homeless persons.
Harry is interested in health policy and systems research, financing, novel service delivery approaches, governance and institutional arrangements, and integrating social science theory, mixed methods and participatory action research to strengthen global and local health systems.
Harry is involved with KIT’s portfolio of health financing projects, and also looking at research and learning within ASCEND (Accelerating Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases) Lot 1 countries; particularly in the context of disruption to community health worker activities due to Covid-19.
Projects
Publications
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Why did informal sector workers stop paying for health insurance in Indonesia? Exploring enrollees’ ability and willingness to pay
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Research article
Indonesia faces a growing informal sector in the wake of implementing a national social health insurance system—Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN)—that supersedes the vertical programmes historically tied to informal employment. This study aims to assess the ability- and willingness-to-pay of informal sector workers who have stopped paying the JKN premium for at least six months, across […]
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare access and utilisation in South Sudan: a cross-sectional mixed methods study
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Research article
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities in fragile and conflict-affected settings may be severe due to reduced access and use of healthcare, as happened during the 2015 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. Achieving a balance between short-term emergency response and addressing long-term health needs is particularly challenging in fragile and conflict-affected settings such as […]
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- 2022
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Access to and utilisation of healthcare services in three states supported by the Health Pooled Fund in South Sudan: a mixed methods study
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Report
Accessing and using healthcare service remains a challenge for South Sudanese people, with geographic coverage estimates varying from 29% to 44% of the population living within 5km of a healthcare facility (Integrity Global, 2018; Macharia, Odera, Snow, & Noor, 2017; Ministry of Health, 2015b). Even reaching a health facility, however, does not guarantee access to […]
- Year of publication
- 2022
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Other Publications
- Muttaqien S., Setiyaningsih H., Aristianti V., Coleman H. L. S., Hidayat M. S., Dhanalvin E., Siregar D. R., Kok M. O., & Mukti A. G. (2020). Ability and willingness to pay for National Health Insurance in Indonesia: a study of the informal sector. Health Policy and Planning (submitted).
- Lumagbas, L. B., Coleman, H. L. S., Bunders, J., Pariente, A., Belonje, A., & de Cock Buning, T. (2018). Non-communicable diseases in Indian slums: re-framing the Social Determinants of Health. Global Health Action, 11(1), 1438840.
- Houngbo, P. T., Zweekhorst, M., Bunders, J., Coleman, H. L. S., Medenou, D., Dakpanon, L., & De Cock Buning, T. (2017). The root causes of ineffective and inefficient healthcare technology management in Benin public health sector. Health Policy and Technology, 6(4), 446–456.
- Houngbo, P. T., De Cock Buning, T., Bunders, J., Coleman, H. L. S., Medenou, D., Dakpanon, L., & Zweekhorst, M. (2017). Ineffective Healthcare Technology Management in Benin’s Public Health Sector: The Perceptions of Key Actors and Their Ability to Address the Main Problems. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(10), 587–600.
- Houngbo, P. T., Coleman, H. L. S., Zweekhorst, M., De Cock Buning, T., Medenou, D., & Bunders, J. F. G. (2017). A Model for Good Governance of Healthcare Technology Management in the Public Sector: Learning from Evidence-Informed Policy Development and Implementation in Benin. PLOS ONE, 12(1), e0168842.