Sergejus Muravjovas
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Sergejus is a senior anti-corruption expert, with more than 18 years of experience in leading and advising on anti-corruption and good governance initiatives in the EU and internationally. He has served as an expert with institutions such as the European Commission, the United Nations Development Program, the European Center for Non-for-profit Law and numerous other public and private organizations. For 15 years, he was at the helm of Transparency International Lithuania, one of the more successful public policy organizations in the region. Sergejus was a member of various working groups developing e.g. the Law on Whistleblower Protection, the Law on Lobbying and the Law on Corruption Prevention, and other legal instruments in Lithuania. He is currently completing his PhD on the impact environment we are exposed to has on our integrity. Sergejus was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and at the Quality of Governance Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
He joins the Institute in March 2024 for a one-month writing residency.
Research interests
Anti-corruption, accountability, integrity, corruption prevention
Devising a novel anti-corruption approach to reduce bribery in healthcare
Corruption in healthcare puts human lives at risk and undermines public trust in democracy. It has also proven to be difficult to tackle, with many new democracies, for instance, struggling to eradicate even bribes from doctor-patient interactions. While law enforcement agencies pay periodic attention to petty corruption and unravel bribery schemes in healthcare establishments, this has only a limited effect. Meanwhile, such corrupt practices, while, overall, significantly less frequent than before, continue to persist, with the heads of hospitals and outpatient clinics seemingly unable or unwilling to put a stop to them.
The current project will analyse how so-called soft anti-corruption initiatives aimed at the promotion of values and social norms can contribute to a lower propensity to give and demand a bribe in the healthcare sector. It will do so by deconstructing and drawing from an anti-corruption initiative that took place in an outpatient clinic in Vilnius, Lithuania. The initiative was developed with the involvement of both the medical community and patients and sought to lower the levels of petty corruption with the elements of social design and continuous engagement with the communities in question.
The project seeks to contribute to the search of effective anti-corruption approaches in the wake of a growing concern within the anti-corruption community that institutional and legal frameworks do not bear the desired results.
Key publications
Transparency International Lithuania (2016). How To Achieve a Small Victory: the Case of Lazdynai Outpatient Clinic. Vilnius: Transparency International Lithuania.
Kalinauskienė, I., Kavoliūnaitė-Ragauskienė, E., Muravjovas, S., Poška, K. et al. (2019). POLA studija: Kaip SAM pavaldžios gydymo įstaigos užkerta kelią korupcijai? [The Study of the Lithuanian Cancer Patient Coalition: How Healthcare Establishments under the Ministry of Healthcare Tackle Corruption?]. Vilnius: POLA.
Kalinauskiene, I., Gailiunaite, I., Baciulis, D., Muravjovas, S. et al. (2020). Corruption and Healthcare Service Quality. Vilnius: Transparency International Lithuania.
Dunčikaitė, I., Žemgulytė, D., Muravjovas, S. et al. (2023), Beieškant dirbtinio intelekto viešajame sektoriuje: Žvalgomasis skaidrumo tyrimas [In the Search of Artificial Intellegince in the Public Sector: An Exploratory Transparency Study]. Vilnius: Transparency International Lithuania.
 New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Sergejus Muravjovas (ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania / Paris IAS Fellow) |
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