Dr Joan Costa-Font is an Associate Professor in Health Economics. His research and teaching interests are broadly on behavioural incentive design for health policy making and health economics and econometrics, with a focus on ageing and health disadvantage. He is an economist with a policy focus and supplementary training in other social sciences. His current work addresses issues on healthy ageing and the design of long-term care programs, the influence of social incentives for health and health care behaviours, and the institutional determinants and economic consequences of health disadvantage.
He regularly publishes in all the main field journals in health economics and behavioural economics, as well as general audience journals in economics and interdisciplinary social science. He has published numerous book chapters and reports for several international governments and organisations, and in 2020 he published a new book on political incentives in health care, published by Cambridge University Press, The Political Economy of Health and Health Care: the Rise of the Patient Citizen.
Joan has earned both a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard University and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the LSE. He has been principal investigator in several research projects and has served as a consultant for a number of international organisations (the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Health Organisation, Public Health England and the European Commission), and been on national (NIHR) and international research committees. He has taught at the University of Barcelona, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and Paris Dauphine. He has held visiting research positions at Oxford University (2009), Boston College (2013) and UCL (2016).
CV
Teaching
HP429 Behavioral Incentive Design in Health and Health Care
HP426 Applied Health Econometrics
HP4D6E Behavioural Insights for Health Incentive Design
Affiliations
Fellow, CESifo Munich
Fellow, IZA Bonn
Affiliate, Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG)