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JOFRE BONET, MIREIA

Mireia Jofre-Bonet is an economist specializing in health economics. She obtained her PhD from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

She has worked in a wide range of areas, including lifestyle decision-making and health behaviour; issues of industrial organization applied to the health sector and pharmaceutical regulation; the willingness of individuals in the informal sector to pay for health insurance systems in low- and middle-income countries; environmental factors and children's health and well-being (domestic violence, maternal working hours; intergenerational transmission of health and behaviours); adaptation to health conditions; migration and adaptation to the lifestyles of the host country.

Mireia is Vice President of the Office of Health Economics since 2019 and continues to be linked to the Department of Economics and the City Health Economics Centre at City, University of London, where she is Honorary Professor of Economics and where she worked for nearly fifteen years and directed the Master's in Health Economics and the Master's in Health Economic Evaluation.

Prior to joining City, Jofre-Bonet was a professor at LSHTM, a member of the research faculty at Yale University School of Public Health, and taught in the economics departments at the London School of Economics and Yale University. She is an associate researcher at the Center for Research in Economics and Health at Pompeu Fabra University.