Ayako Honda is a Senior Researcher / Senior Lecturer in the Health Economics Unit at the University of Cape Town. Previously, she worked as a consultant and team-based research specialist investigating the field of Official Development Assistance (ODA) with a particular focus on public health and poverty alleviation for both government agencies and programme implementers. She holds a PhD in health economics from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Her current research interests centre around the analysis of implementation processes for health system strengthening options from the organisational and institutional perspectives in order to examine their impact on equity