Tijana Stolic

Biography

Tijana is a Health Economist Manager at Amgen, where she leads on the design and delivery of HTA strategies and submissions to UK HTA agencies, as well as early asset planning, local access strategy, and external HTA stakeholder engagement.

Formerly a Senior Consultant in Health Economics and Market Access at IQVIA, where she worked on supporting clients in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector across various therapeutic areas and healthcare challenges. She has several years of experience working in pharmaceutical companies across the US and Europe, primarily in health economics and market access, digital health solutions, and commercial strategy for innovative therapies in oncology and immunology.

Tijana also has academic background in health economic modelling, having worked at Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital and at LSE Health in research groups that developed decision analytic models for assessing cost-effectiveness of treatments and preventive measures for HIV, other infections diseases as well as non-communicable diseases.

Tijana has two Bachelor of Science degrees in Molecular Biology and in Economics from Yale University in the US, where she gained various work experiences in translational biomedical research and health economics. Tijana graduated from LSE with a MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics stream), as part of which she conducted a research project in HTA at Pfizer, identifying clinical and economic uncertainties that are key decision drivers in NICE health technology appraisals of therapies for multiple myeloma.

Research Topic

Media depictions of trafficked women

Tijana's broad research interest is trafficking for sexual exploitation, which was also the topic of her Master's dissertation at Oxford University, where she studied police officers' perceptions of trafficked women. The study sought to problematise the binary between trafficked women's victimhood and agency, which served as a point of departure for her current thesis. In her current work, she examines how trafficked women are constructed as subjects of public pity in three genres of media: film, celebrity advocacy, and NGO campaigns. The notion that pity is socially constructed serves as a lens for analysing how women, as gendered subjects, are produced and what kinds of public imagination these identities can evoke.

Supervisor: Lilie Chouliaraki and Shani Orgad.

Expertise

Visual culture; feminist theory; critical discourse analysis; politics of pity; agency; human trafficking; gender; migration