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I am a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Health Policy and Economics at the Health Organisation, Policy and Economics (HOPE) research group, University of Manchester (UoM). Prior to coming to UoM, I was a Research Fellow at the Health Economics Group at the University of East Anglia, UK and at the Centre for the Analysis of Public Policies (CAPP) at the Department of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

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My research fields are the health and public economics of ageing, applied micro-econometrics, policy evaluation of health and social care services delivery, integration and organisation, and (static, dynamic, spatial) microsimulation.

I have published in prestigious journals in different disciplines, such as Health Economics, Health Policy, BMC Medicine, British Journal of General Practice, Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Social Science & Medicine, Addiction, Economics & Human Biology, Fiscal Studies, Social Policy & Administration.

My work is highly policy-relevant and has been used in several impact and engagement activities. Recent impact activities include invited talks and collaborations at the national level (Departments of Health & Social Care, and for Work and Pensions, the House of Lords and charitable foundations) and international (Chinese Ministry of Finance, the European Commission, and the Italian Social Security Institute, the Ministry of Social Security and the Parliamentary Budget Office) levels.

I am the Deputy Director of the “Economic Sustainability Research” of the NIHR ARC-GM theme. I am a member of the Social Care Working Group (SCWG), a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) the latter being chaired by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA).

My research has been supported <link>, among others, by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Economic and Social Research Council, European Commission, Nuffield Foundation, the UK Department of Health & Social Care.

I hold a MSc in Applied Economics and Data Analysis and a PhD from the Department of Economics at the U. of Essex (UK) and the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). I also obtained a PhD in Economics at U. of Bologna.


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