I am a health and development economist studying how environmental shocks reshape health, gender inequality, and healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries. My work uses quasi-experimental methods combined with high-resolution satellite weather data, administrative records, and large-scale surveys to identify causal effects that are policy-relevant.

My current work examines two interconnected questions. First, I investigate how rising temperatures drive domestic violence in Peru, exploiting temporal variation in extreme heat events to identify causal effects and uncover behavioural mechanisms. Second, I study how prenatal exposure to the 2017 Coastal El Niño altered birth outcomes and disrupted maternal healthcare provision. A parallel strand of my research develops welfare-based distributional indices to analyse how the burden of non-communicable diseases varies across socioeconomic groups and geographies.

Before my PhD, I conducted research at the Health Economics Research Centre (University of Oxford) and the EQUIPOL group (University of York), and worked as a consultant at the Pan-American Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institute of Health of Peru.

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News 📰:

• I am currently a visiting researcher at Bocconi University, Milan (April–June 2026), supported by an Erasmus Trustfonds grant.

• This summer I will present my research at the ESE–RGHI–GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs (Rotterdam, June 4–5), the 12th IRDES–LIRAES Workshop on Applied Health Economics and Policy Evaluation (Paris, June 18–19), and the EuHEA Conference 2026 (Rotterdam, July 15–17). See you there!

• Our paper on public preferences for trading off lives saved against life-years gained is now published in the European Journal of Health Economics. link