Dr Antonieta Medina-Lara

Antonieta is an economist with specialisation in health economics, applied micro-econometrics and decision modelling. She joined the University of Exeter, as a senior lecturer in January 2012. Prior to joining the University of Exeter she worked at Università Bocconi, in Italy; the Economics Department at the Management School at the University of Liverpool, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the University of East Anglia and at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana –Azcapotzalco in Mexico City. She has wide experience in disease areas such as Cancer, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Viral Encephalitis, and Meningitis and has been involved in projects in Belgium, France, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, UK and Zimbabwe.

She has been a primary investigator and collaborator of several UK and international projects including EU-funded and DFID research projects. Antonieta’s current research interests focus on the methodology around stated preference and best worst experiments, well-being measurement, the implementation of applied field experiments and the measurement and valuation of health outcomes for cost-effectiveness analysis.