Michela is a health and care economist, specialising in the evaluation, design, and improvement of social care and integrated care services. For more than 10 years, she has helped governments, charities, and service providers understand the impact of their programmes and make evidence-informed decisions in complex, real-world environments.
Her work focuses on developing practical, actionable methods for health and social care, particularly where need is high, data are limited, and traditional evaluation approaches fall short. This includes innovations in choice modelling, participatory approaches with people using services and those designing, commissioning and delivering care, and frameworks that capture outcomes often overlooked in standard economic evaluation.
She has delivered evaluations across a wide range of health and care areas, including, for example: respiratory disease, dementia and neurodegenerative conditions, integrated health and care pathways, social care assessments and workforce planning, homelessness and housing-led support, recovery from drug and alcohol misuse, and interventions for people at risk of self-neglect and hoarding.
A major strand of her work addresses the methodological challenges of evaluating services for groups with complex needs, creating solutions where data quality is uneven, service models vary, and impacts cut across multiple budgets, including health, housing, social care, criminal justice, and societal productivity.
To enable organisations to track outcomes in near real time, adjust interventions, and make faster, evidence-informed, and preventative decisions, Michela is developing the Care Quality Evaluation (CQE) platform. CQE is designed to become an automated, data-driven decision-support tool using a dynamic evaluation approach. The current prototype aims to demonstrate how organisations could assess service performance, compare care models, estimate the economic impact across different budgets, and identify opportunities for improvement (qualityevaluation.com).
Expertise: Economic and impact evaluation, Social care, Integrated care, Complex interventions, Vulnerable populations, Applied research methods, Participatory approaches, Decision-support tools, Data visualisation, Policy and commissioning
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