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PROF. MIREIA JOFRE-BONET

 

Background

Professor Jofre-Bonet is Director of the MSc in Health Economics and the MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare at City University London. She is a Senior Associated Researcher at LSE Health and Social Policy, has collaborated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in evaluating interventions aimed at fighting blindness in developing countries and the UK at the Moorfields Trust.

Prior to joining City, Professor Jofre-Bonet was a Lecturer at LSHTM, a Research Faculty member at the School of Public Health at Yale University, and taught at the Departments of Economics at the London School of Economics and at Yale University.

She is a Core Member of NICE Public Health Committee, ESRC Peer College Reviewer and has contributed to health economics projects and reviews for private and public institutions - including the UK Department of Health, the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme, and the Catalan and the Balearic Island's Departments of Health.

Other professional activities

- Core Member of a NICE Public Health Committee

- Member of the ESRC Peer Review College, 2010 onwards
- Director of the MSc in Economic Evaluation in Health Care since September 2006 and Director of the MSc in Health Economics since January 2007
- Organiser of the London Health Economics Group since Autumn 2009
- Member of the NICE Programme Development Group Type Diabetes 2.
- Member of the International Health Economists' Association, the Health Economists' Study Group (UK); the Centre de Recerca en Economia de la Salut, Barcelona
- Research Associate of FEDEA Health, Spain

MY LATEST RESEARCH

Overweight and cultural vertical transmission

 

Overweight is transmitted culturally from parents to children...not all boils down to genes!  We have used a large dataset including information on natural and adopted children and their parents. The likelihood of an adopted child to be overweight significantly increases if both parents are overweight, even after controlling for the working status of the mother.

Collaboration with industry and research productivity

Collaboration with the industry can be beneficial for academic productivity but only up to a certain level. Using data on almost all engineering departments in the UK, we have estimated that the relationship between collaborative projects with the industry and number of publications of academics has an inverted curviliniar shape...

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