Dr Benjamin Hunter

Senior Lecturer (Political & International Studies)

email: Benjamin.Hunter@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Ben is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social & Political Sciences and Associate Lead for Healthy & Equitable Futures in the University's Glasgow Changing Futures initiative. He is based in the recently formed subject group of International Political Economy & Development, which brings together the University's leading expertise on the global economy and international development to investigate how contemporary transformations are reshaping wealth, power and inequalities.

Ben's research interests centre on the political economy of development financing, social development and issues of public-private engagment. His recent work addresses trends in the financing of development, the expansion of private and blended finance in global health, and the positioning of nations within the emerging global healthcare economy. Ben has been awarded research grants by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the Wellcome Trust, and is an Editor for Globalization and Health. His book, Investor States: Global Health at the End of Aid (Cambridge University Press, 2023), traced the emergence of state-owned development finance institutions, national development banks and sovereign wealth funds as key financial stakeholders in Global South health systems. A wider range of projects and outputs are available here.

A keen advocate for engagement and partnership beyond the university, Ben convenes the Development Studies Association Scotland Study Group and recently concluded a collaborative project with partners from several Scottish universities on recent trends in development aid and what comes next, funded by the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. He is co-founder of the International Expert Group on Financialisation and Blended Finance in Global Health and a member of The Collective for the Political Determinants of Health. Ben has worked with several multilateral and non-governmental organisations including the UN University International Institute for Global Health, World Health Organization, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, and Oxfam.

Prior to joining Glasgow in 2023, Ben was based at the University of Sussex and before that King's College London. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and King's College London.

Research interests

political economy of development
development financing (including aid, blended finance and private finance)
market-making in social sectors
global health and the global healthcare economy
international political economy
decentred regulation / regulatory capitalism
social sectors in China, India and the UK

Research groups

International Political Economy & Development

Publications

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2027

Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Marathe, Shweta and Stewart, Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2027) Witness Seminars. Series: Bloomsbury Research Methods. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350596566 hbk; 9781350596559 pbk (In Press)

2026

McAdam, Heather, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Blane, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3872-3621, Riddell, Rebecca, Johnstone, Christopher and McCartney, Gerard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-3521 (2026) Megapractices: a tentative typology of the new models of primary care provision in Scotland. Public Health, 256, 106341. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2026.106341) (PMID:42143835)

Dong, Yiming, Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 and Murray, Susan F. (2026) The case of privatisation in China’s hospital sector: neoliberalisation under state capitalism. Global Social Policy, (doi: 10.1177/14680181251411515) (Early Online Publication)

2025

Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, McCoy, David, Cordilha, Ana Carolina, Marriott, Anna, Roy, Victor, Stein, Felix and Wood, Benjamin (2025) Private finance and the threat to global health. BMJ Global Health, 10(6), e019726. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2025-019726) (PMID:40518277)

Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2025) Internationalisation and moral economies in healthcare: NHS exporting and the English patient. Globalization and Health, 21, 37. (doi: 10.1186/s12992-025-01122-7) (PMID:40514728) (PMCID:PMC12166583)

Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Chakravarthi, Indira, Marathe, Shweta and Murray, Susan F. (2025) Financialisation and the reshaping of private healthcare: a case study in India. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(4), e70041. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.70041)

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, McCoy, David, Cordilha, Ana Carolina, Marriott, Anna, Roy, Victor, Stein, Felix and Wood, Benjamin (2025) Private Financial Actors and Financialisation in Global Health. Working Paper. UNU-IIGH. (doi: 10.37941/RR/2025/1).

2024

Merz, Sibille, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Bisht, Ramila and Murray, Susan F. (2024) ‘Not in it for huge profits but because it’s right’: the contested moral economies of UK–India exports in health worker education and training. Sociology of Health and Illness, 46(2), pp. 219-235. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13700) (PMID:37578685)

Merz, Sibille, Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Murray, Susan F. and Bisht, Ramila (2024) Market making and the production of nurses for export. A case study of India-UK health worker migration. BMJ Global Health, 9(2), e014096. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014096) (PMID:38418245) (PMCID:PMC10910680)

2023

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2023) Investor States: Global Health at The End of Aid. Series: Elements in global development studies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009209557 (doi: 10.1017/9781009209564)

Chakravarthi, Indira, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Marathe, Shweta and Murray, Susan F. (2023) Corporatisation in private hospitals sector in India: a case study from Maharashtra. Economic and Political Weekly, 58(11), 18 Mar.

2022

George Salter, Brian, Dong, Yiming and Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2022) Constructing healthcare services markets: networks, brokers and the China-England engagement. Globalization and Health, 18(1), 102. (doi: 10.1186/s12992-022-00892-8) (PMID:36494851) (PMCID:PMC9733353)

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Murray, Susan F., Marathe, Shweta and Chakravarthi, Indira (2022) Decentred regulation: the case of private healthcare in India. World Development, 155, 105889. (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105889) (PMID:36846632) (PMCID:PMC9941715)

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Bisht, Ramila and Murray, Susan F. (2022) Neoliberalisation enacted through development aid: the case of health vouchers in India. Critical Public Health, 32(2), pp. 193-205. (doi: 10.1080/09581596.2020.1770695)

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 and Shaffer, Jonathan (2022) Human capital, risk and the World Bank’s reintermediation in global development. Third World Quarterly, 43(1), pp. 35-54. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1953980)

2020

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2020) Going for brokerage: strategies and strains in commercial healthcare facilitation. Globalization and Health, 16, 49. (doi: 10.1186/s12992-020-00578-z) (PMID:32471459) (PMCID:PMC7260813)

Marathe, Shweta, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Chakravarthi, Indira, Shukla, Abhay and Murray, Susan F. (2020) The impacts of corporatisation of healthcare on medical practice and professionals in Maharashtra, India. BMJ Global Health, 5(2), e002026. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002026) (PMID:32133190) (PMCID:PMC7042603)

2019

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 and Murray, Susan F. (2019) Deconstructing the financialization of healthcare. Development and Change, 50(5), pp. 1263-1287. (doi: 10.1111/dech.12517)

Chakravarthi, Indira and Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2019) Witness Seminar on Private Healthcare Sector in Pune and Mumbai since the 1980s. Held on 24th June 2018, Mumbai. Organized by SATHI, Pune and King’s College London. Transcript edited by Indira Chakravarthi and Benjamin M. Hunter. Other. SATHI (Support for Advocacy & Training to Health Initiatives).

Chakravarthi, Indira and Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2019) Witness Seminar on Regulation of formal private healthcare providers in Maharashtra. Organized by SATHI, Pune and King’s College London. Transcript edited by Indira Chakravarthi and Benjamin M. Hunter. Other. SATHI (Support for Advocacy & Training to Health Initiatives).

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2019) Global actors, their priorities and local ‘partnerships’: a case study of USAID’s Sambhav scheme in Uttar Pradesh, India. In: Kapilashrami, Anuj and Baru, Rama V. (eds.) Global Health Governance and Commercialisation of Public Health in India: Actors, Institutions and the Dialectics of Global and Local. Routledge: London.

2018

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 (2018) Brokerage in commercialised healthcare systems: a conceptual framework and empirical evidence from Uttar Pradesh. Social Science and Medicine, 202, pp. 128-135. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.004) (PMID:29524868)

2017

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 and Murray, Susan F. (2017) Demand-side financing for maternal and newborn health: what do we know about factors that affect implementation of cash transfers and voucher programmes? BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17, 262. (doi: 10.1186/s12884-017-1445-y) (PMID:28854877) (PMCID:PMC5577737)

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Harrison, Sean, Portela, Anayda and Bick, Debra (2017) The effects of cash transfers and vouchers on the use and quality of maternity care services: a systematic review. PLoS ONE, 12(3), e0173068. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173068) (PMID:28328940) (PMCID:PMC5362260)

Gideon, Jasmine, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 and Murray, Susan F. (2017) Public-private partnerships in sexual and reproductive healthcare provision: establishing a gender analysis. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33(2), pp. 166-180. (doi: 10.1080/21699763.2017.1329157)

2016

Bridge, Jamie, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Albers, Eliot, Cook, Catherine, Guarinieri, Mauro, Lazarus, Jeffrey V., MacAllister, Jack, McLean, Susie and Wolfe, Daniel (2016) The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's investments in harm reduction through the rounds-based funding model (2002-2014). International Journal of Drug Policy, 27, pp. 132-137. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.08.001) (PMID:26342275)

2015

Dennick, Kathryn, Sturt, Jackie, Hessler, Danielle, Purssell, Edward, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Oliver, Jennifer and Fisher, Lawrence (2015) High rates of elevated diabetes distress in research populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Diabetes Nursing, 12(3), pp. 93-107. (doi: 10.1080/20573316.2016.1202497)

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245 and Murray, Susan F. (2015) "Beyond aid" investments in private healthcare in developing countries. British Medical Journal, 351, h3012. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.h3012) (PMID:26156963)

Stuart, Jackie, Dennick, Kathryn, Hessler, Danielle, Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Oliver, Jennifer and Fisher, Lawrence (2015) Effective interventions for reducing diabetes distress: systematic review and meta-analysis. International Diabetes Nursing, 12(2), pp. 40-55. (doi: 10.1179/2057332415y.0000000004)

2014

Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Requejo, Jennifer H., Pope, Ian, Daelmans, Bernadette and Murray, Susan F. (2014) National health policy-makers' views on the clarity and utility of Countdown to 2015 country profiles and reports: findings from two exploratory qualitative studies. Health Research Policy and Systems, 12, 40. (doi: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-40)

Murray, Susan F., Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Bisht, Ramila, Ensor, Tim and Bick, Debra (2014) Effects of demand-side financing on utilisation, experiences and outcomes of maternity care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14, 30. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-30) (PMID:24438560) (PMCID:PMC3897964)

Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Chakravarthi, Indira, Bisht, Ramila and Murray, Susan F. (2014) Demand-side financing and promotion of maternal health: what has India learnt? Economic and Political Weekly, 49(2), pp. 66-73.

2012

Bridge, Jamie, Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Atun, Rifat and Lazarus, Jeffrey V. (2012) Global Fund investments in harm reduction from 2002 to 2009. International Journal of Drug Policy, 23(4), pp. 279-285. (doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.01.013) (PMID:22421551)

Murray, Susan F., Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Bisht, Ramila, Ensor, Tim and Bick, Debra (2012) Demand-side financing measures to increase maternal health service utilisation and improve health outcomes: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 10(58), pp. 4165-4567. (doi: 10.11124/jbisrir-2012-408) (PMID:27820523)

2011

Adisasmito, Wiku, Hunter, Benjamin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Krumkamp, Ralf, Latief, Kamal, Rudge, James, Hanvoravongchai, Piya and Coker, Richard (2011) Pandemic influenza and health system resource gaps in Bali: an analysis through a resource transmission dynamics model. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 27(2), NP713-NP733. (doi: 10.1177/1010539511421365) (PMID:22087040)

Coker, Richard J., Hunter, Benjamin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-5245, Rudge, James W., Liverani, Marco and Hanvoravongchai, Piya (2011) Emerging infectious diseases in southeast Asia: regional challenges to control. Lancet, 377(9765), pp. 599-609. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62004-1) (PMID:21269678) (PMCID:PMC7159088)

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