Gill Schierhout

About Dr Gill Schierhout

Program Lead, Evaluation and system reform

  • Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney

Dr Schierhout has a lead role in developing a program of work at the institute focused on evaluating interventions of public health significance and large-scale programs in health. Her research work is underpinned by qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods expertise and decades of experience conducting evaluations closely with and for health system stakeholders globally and in many different countries in Africa and Asia-Pacific. She has published widely and is lead or chief investigator on a number of grants and commissioned research projects focused on evaluating innovative policy reforms and programs to improve the access and quality of primary care, particularly for disadvantaged groups.