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Professor Antonieta Medina-Lara serves as Professor of Public Health Economics in the Department of Public Health and Sports Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter. She joined the University of Exeter in January 2012 as a senior lecturer in health economics. Before this appointment, her career included positions at Università Bocconi in Italy, the Economics Department in the Management School at the University of Liverpool, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the University of East Anglia, and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco in Mexico City. Holding a Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Medina-Lara is an economist with expertise in health economics, applied micro-econometrics, and decision modelling.
Her research encompasses a broad range of disease areas, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, rheumatoid arthritis, viral encephalitis, and meningitis. She has contributed to projects across multiple countries such as Belgium, France, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, the UK, and Zimbabwe. As principal investigator and collaborator, she has led several UK and international initiatives, including EU-funded and DFID-supported projects. Current research interests center on methodologies for stated preference and best-worst experiments, well-being measurement, implementation of applied field experiments, and the measurement and valuation of health outcomes for cost-effectiveness analysis. Key publications include 'Review of 99 self-report measures for assessing well-being in adults: exploring dimensions of well-being and developments over time' (BMJ Open, 2016), 'Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease. Part 1: determinants operating at individual and household level' (The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2004), 'Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease. Part II: determinants operating at environmental and institutional level' (The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2004), and 'Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review' (Social Science & Medicine, 2021). Her contributions have advanced methodologies in health economics and informed public health policy and decision-making.
