Binta Zahra Diop
Binta Zahra Diop is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.
Content by Binta Zahra Diop
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Blog post
What’s the marginal productivity of a nurse?
Imagine you are running a national health system in a country in Africa. You run thousands of health facilities and employ tens of thousands of nurses, doctors, midwives, and other health workers. Where should you deploy these personnel to have the greatest impact on public health? Suppose there is a rural health clinic that employs two nurses. What would improve service...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Policy brief: Using administrative data to measure the productivity and allocation of health workers and funds: Lessons from Ghana
Since 2018, doctors and administrators from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and academics from the University of Oxford have been working together to understand which health facilities personnel should be deployed to in order to have the greatest impact on health. This project undertook a government-academia collaboration using Ghana’s District Health Information...
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Publication - Working Paper
Understanding the allocation of public personnel across government health facilities in Ghana