The Health Economics Unit (HEU)
The Health Economics Unit (HEU) is a research
cluster of the Department of Economics at
the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
It was established in 1995 to focus on research,
training and project related activities in
Health Economics and related areas such as
Social Insurance, Poverty, Health and Sustainable
Development, Equity, Health Policy and Management.
The formation of the HEU coincided with the
growing movement towards Health Sector Reform
in the English-speaking Caribbean. HEU researchers
saw themselves as providers of critical technical
support to the Region. It is therefore no
surprise that the HEU has developed close
ties with a number of Ministries of Health
in the Caribbean as well as with other supportive
agencies within and outside the University.
