Dr Victoria Serra-Sastre

Lecturer

Department of Economics

Email: Victoria.Serra-Sastre.1@city.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7040 0171

Overview

Dr Serra-Sastre holds a degree in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She collaborates with LSE Health, doing research on diffusion of medical technologies and has contributed to several publications on this topic.

She has worked for the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at King’s College London on the evaluation of technology implementation.

She has also contributed to the elaboration of a number of reports for public organisations in the modelling of programme intervention in health and social care services.

Research interests

Her research is focused on the identification of the determinants of the uptake of new medicines and the diffusion of surgical procedures. In particular, she is examining the relationship between information and technology diffusion as well as the impact on diffusion of economic and organisational factors.

Teaching

She teaches courses on quantitative methods, economic evaluation, and health economics.