Itamar Megiddo

Biographic Data

ID1725019
NAMEItamar Megiddo
GIVEN NAMESItamar
FAMILY NAMEMegiddo
SIGNATUREMEGIDDO I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Strathclyde
ORCID0000-0001-8391-6660
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Which good practice exists for policymaking under uncertainty? An interdisciplinary review with relevance for health technology assessment (HTA)

    Open AccessSiobhan Botwright, Itamar Megiddo et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    Appropriate policymaking under uncertainty can lead to better decisions around how constrained resources are used. Although approaches from the technical sciences can provide robust, generalisable uncertainty estimations, they cannot account for the varying social, economic, and cultural contexts in which policies are made and implemented. We evaluated current health technology assessment (HTA) practice, finding limited consideration of social sc…

  • Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care

    Open AccessLe Khanh Ngan Nguyen, Holly Mccabe et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Cited by: 1References: 29

    Health and social care systems face immense pressures that emerge from complex interdependencies between system components, transcending conventional explanations of demand-capacity mismatches. Although multiple theoretic perspectives (e.g., "complex adaptive systems", "sociotechnical systems") have been advocated as ways to capture and characterise the nature of that complexity, consolidating it into actionable insights for coordinated stakehold…

  • The effect of pests and pathogens on forest harvesting regimes

    Open AccessEwan McTaggart, Itamar Megiddo et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2023Cited by: 1References: 1

    Pests and diseases are an existential threat to trees in forests and woodlands. There is, therefore, a pressing need to use ecological and bioeconomic models to inform forest managers on control and mitigation strategies. For example, the incidence of Dothistroma needle blight in the UK has increased rapidly since the 1990s, and it is a significant threat to the productivity of commercial forestry. Climatic changes are expected to exacerbate this…

  • Economic evaluations of health system strengthening activities in low-income and middle-income country settings

    Open AccessNathaniel Hendrix, 安春 徳田 et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The number of included studies was small. Our findings suggest that most economic evaluations of HSS do not leverage methods like sensitivity analyses or inputs from literature review that would produce more generalisable (but potentially less precise) results. More research into how decision-makers would use economic evaluations to define the expansion path to strengthening health systems would allow for conceptualising impactful work on the eco…

  • Optimal subscription models to pay for antibiotics

    Open AccessElisabeth Barlow, Alec Morton et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022References: 24

  • Covid-19 Vaccination in Lower-Middle Income Countries

    Open AccessEunice Twumwaa Tagoe, Nurnabi Sheikh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    The development of COVID-19 vaccines does not imply the end of the global pandemic as now countries have to purchase enough COVID-19 vaccine doses and work towards their successful rollout. Vaccination across the world has progressed slowly in all, but a few high-income countries (HICs) as governments learn how to vaccinate their entire populations amidst a pandemic. Most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been relying on the COVID-19 …

  • Health systems, population and patient challenges for achieving universal health coverage for hypertension in Ghana

    Open AccessAugustina Koduah, Justice Nonvignon et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Ghana has signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), ensuring that all individuals receive the health care they require without financial hardship. Achieving that goal is a difficult task in any setting. The challenges are further exacerbated by a changing disease landscape, as the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing and creating a dual burden along with infectious…

  • Fairer financing of vaccines in a world living with Covid-19

    Open AccessItamar Megiddo, Justice Nonvignon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine and campaign-based vaccination, potentially increasing the future vaccine-preventable disease burden and threatening to overwhelm health systems.\n\n- Vaccine-preventable diseases are transboundary problems that require global cooperation to achieve the best outcomes.\n\n- Investments, predominantly by rich countries—in effect transfers to poor countries—are required as part of the financing solution. T…

  • Reduced burden of childhood diarrheal diseases through increased access to water and sanitation in India

    Open AccessArindam Nandi, Itamar Megiddo et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Cited by: 4References: 26

  • Health and economic benefits of scaling up a home-based neonatal care package in rural India

    Open AccessArindam Nandi, Abigail Colson et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Cited by: 1References: 31

    Approximately 900 000 newborn children die every year in India, accounting for 28% of neonatal deaths globally. In 2011, India introduced a home-based newborn care (HBNC) package to be delivered by community health workers across rural areas. We estimate the disease and economic burden that could be averted by scaling up the HBNC in rural India using IndiaSim, an agent-based simulation model, to examine two interventions. In the first interventio…