Benedetta Pongiglione
Benedetta Pongiglione holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She previously obtained a degree in Economic and Social Science from Bocconi University and completed the European Doctoral School of Demography program.
She is honorary research associate at
the University College London and joined CERGAS as a postdoctoral
research fellow. She is involved on research on cost and outcome
analysis of healthcare technologies and development of scientific models
to investigate medical practice variations to foster the use of
economic evaluation in policymaking.
Her research interests
include socio-structural inequalities in health, and understanding their
causes and consequences. She investigates individual and aggregate
determinants of health combining demographic and epidemiological
approaches with the approach of sister disciplines, such as health
economics and health management.