Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet
Director, Health Economics/Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MScs
Email: mireia.jofre-bonet@city.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7040 0168
Overview
Professor Jofre-Bonet is Director of the MSc in Health Economics and the MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare at City University London. She is a Senior Associated Researcher at LSE Health and Social Policy, collaborates with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and evaluates interventions aimed at fighting blindness in developing countries and the UK at the Moorfields Trust.
Prior to joining City, Professor Jofre-Bonet was a Lecturer at LSHTM, a Research Faculty member at the School of Public Health at Yale University, and taught at the Departments of Economics at the London School of Economics and at Yale University.
She has contributed to health economics projects and reviews for private and public institutions - including the UK Department of Health, the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme, and the Catalan and the Balearic Island's Departments of Health.
Research interests
Fields of interest include: health production functions and lifestyle decisions; the impact of substance abuse and mental health on productivity; economic evaluation applied to substance abuse and to eye disease; demand of health insurance and topics of industrial organisation applied to the demand for health care.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
"Is there a 'Secession of the Wealthy'? Private Health Insurance Uptake and National Health System Support?" (2008), joint with Joan Costa-Font, Bulletin of Economic Research, Volume 60, Issue 3, Date: July 2008, pp. 265-287
"Trading apples for oranges? Results of an experiment on the effects of heroin and cocaine price changes on addicts' polydrug use" (2008), Jofre-Bonet, M. and Nancy M. Petry , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 66, Issue 2, pp. 281-311
"Are Private Health Insurance Subscribers Unsatisfied with the Spanish National Health System?" (2006), Joan Costa-Font and Mireia Jofre-Bonet, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Issues and Practice, volume 31(4), pp. 650-668
"Poor Mental Health and Smoking: Interactive Impact on Wages" (2005) Jofre-Bonet, M., Busch S.H., Falba T.A. and Sindelar J.L., Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics,8(4), pp.193-203
"Estimation of a Dynamic Auction Game", (2003), M. Jofre-Bonet, M. Pesendorfer, Econometrica, 71(5), pp. 1443-1489
"Drug Treatment as a Crime Fighting Tool?" , (2001), M. Jofre-Bonet , J. L. Sindelar, Journal Mental Health Policy and Economics, 4(4), pp. 175-188
"Public Health Care & Private Insurance: The Waiting Time as a Link", (2000), M. Jofre-Bonet, Health Care Management Science, 3(1), pp. 51-71
"Health Care: Private and/or Public Provision", (2000), European Journal of Political Economy, M. Jofre-Bonet , 16(3) , September 2000, pp. 469-489
"Bidding Behavior in a Repeated Procurement Auction: A Summary", (2000), M. Jofre-Bonet , M. Pesendorfer, European Economic Review, 44(4-6) , pp. 1006-1020
Other peer reviewed journal publications
"Economic Evaluation for Ophthalmologists" H. Kuper, M. Jofre-Bonet, C. Gilbert, Ophthalmic Epidemiology, Volume 13, Issue 6 December 2006 , pp. 393 - 401
"Smoking and household expenditure: Is there a crowd-out of other goods?" (2005) Busch S.H., Jofre-Bonet, M. Falba T.A. and Sindelar J.L., Applied Health Economics and Health Policy; 3 (4)
"An Outcome Index for Substance Abuse Cost-Effectiveness Analysis", (2004), M. Jofre-Bonet, J. L. Sindelar, Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 73(1), pp. 41-50
"Reduction in Quantity Smoked Predicts Future Cessation Among Older Smokers", (2004), T.A. Falba, M. Jofre-Bonet, S.H. Busch, N. Duchovny, & J. L. Sindelar, Addiction, 99(1), pp. 93-102
"Willingness to Pay for Smoking Cessation Treatments", (2004) S.H. Busch, T.A. Falba, N. Duchovny, M. Jofre-Bonet, Stephanie O'Malley, J. L. Sindelar, Nicotine Tobacco Research , vol. 6, num. 4, pp. 631-639
"Cost Effectiveness of Disulfiram: Treating Cocaine Use in Methadone-Maintained Patients", M. Jofre-Bonet, J. L. Sindelar, I. L. Petrakis, C. Nich, E. F. McCance-Katz, T. Frankforter, B. J. Rounsaville & K. M. Carroll, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 26(3) , pp. 225-32
"Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Addiction Treatments: Paradoxes of Multivariate Outcomes", (2004), J. L. Sindelar, M. Jofre-Bonet, M. T. French & A. T. McLellan, Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 73(1), pp. 41-50
Other publications
May 28, 2009 - A summary of our joint research with Albert Banal-Estanol and Cornelia Meissner appeared on the The Times Higher Education Magazine, under the title 'Work with industry pays in publications - to a point'.
May 19, 2009, interviewed for an article on why Russians die so young by CNN World
News, 'Russia's bleak picture of health'
Body Image and Food Disorders: Evidence from a Sample of European Women, with Joan Costa-Font, CES-ifo group working paper # 2412, September 2008
Optimal Sequential Auctions, with Martin Pesendorfer, LSE-STICERD monograph report, May 2005
Drug Treatment as a Crime Fighting Tool with Jody L. Sindelar, NBER Working Paper w9038, July 2002
Estimation of a Dynamic Auction Game with Martin Pesendorfer, NBER Working Paper w8626, Dec 2001
Tobacco Spending and its Crowd-Out of Other Goods NBER Working Paper w10974, Dec 2004
"El Seguro Sanitario dentro del Sistema Sanitario Español: algunas reflexiones contextuales", joint with Guillem López-Casanovas, (1995), Todo Hospital, vol. 115
"The Length of Unemployment in the Industrial Sector", joint with Jordi Baiget and the Institute of Labor Studies of Barcelona, (1989), Món Laboral, vol. 7
Work in progress
Individual Incentives and socially transmitted health related behaviour, joint with Joan Costa-Font
Obesity and parental lifestyles, joint with Joan Costa-Font and Julian LeGrand
Do payments Crowd Out Blood Donation?, joint with Joan Costa-Font and Steven Yen
Social Transmission of Lifestyles: What do we know so far?, joint with Joan Costa-Font
Mortality and Business Cycles revisited, joint with Joan Costa-Font and José Olmo
Health Care Expenditure Projection of the Balearic Islands from 2009 to 2050: A simulation
Benefits and costs of knowledge and technology transfer: measuring the dynamic effects, joint with Albert Costa-Estañol (funded by ESRC Small Grant, pilot study funded by City University Pump Priming Grant)
Cost Effectiveness for the Project for Rapid Elimination of Trachoma in Africa, joint project of John Hopkins University, the University of California at San Francisco, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant)
Cost Effectiveness Analysis of adjunctive beta-irradiation for trabeculectomy in an African setting, joint with Ian Murdoch, Simon Cousens et al., work in progress
The relative degree of inheritance of illnesses using the informative contents of surnames, joint with Maia Güell (Edinburgh University) and José V. Rodríguez Mora (Edinburgh University)
Cost Effectiveness Analysis of intraoperative 5-fluorouracil in primary glaucoma filtration surgery, with Kerry Gairy, Peng Khaw and Jonathan Clarke, work in progress
Developing an algorithm to infer quality of life in glaucoma patients joint with Yasmene Alavi, Catey Bunce, Richard Worlmald, Roger Hitchings and Allen Foster A living model for the treatment of glaucoma disease, joint with Jack Dowie et al. work in progress
A Stochastic Model of the Stroke Unit of Saint Thomas Hospital: The cost of length of stay delays, joint with Omer Saka, Alistair J. McGuire, Charles Wolfe and Anthony Rudd, work in progress
"Optimal Sequential Auctions," with Martin Pesendorfer, May 2005, technical report, LSE
Benefits and costs of knowledge and technology transfer: measuring the dynamic effects, joint with Albert Banal-Estañol (funded by ESRC Small Grant, pilot study funded by City University Pump Priming Grant). Submitted October 2008
Other publications
Drug Treatment as a Crime Fighting Tool with Jody L. Sindelar, (2001), NBER Working Paper w9038, July 2002
Estimation of a Dynamic Auction Game with Martin Pesendorfer, NBER working paper w8626, December 2001
Tobacco Spending and its Crowd-Out of Other Goods, NBER working paper #w10974, December 2004
"El Seguro Sanitario dentro del Sistema Sanitario Español: algunas reflexiones contextuales", joint with Guillem López-Casanovas, (1995), Todo Hospital, vol. 115
"The Length of Unemployment in the Industrial Sector", joint with Jordi Baiget and the Institute of Labor Studies of Barcelona, (1989), Món Laboral, vol. 7
Recent presentations
Seminars
Economics Department of University of Sheffield, February 13, 2008; London Health Economics Group, LSE, February 21, 2008; Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford - 18 October 2007; Saint Thomas Hospital Glaucoma Unit, October 12, 2007; An economic model of anorexia" (poster) at the International Health Economics Association, Copenhagen, 8 -11 July, 2007; "; Wagner School, NYU, November 2004; European Health Economics Conference, London, September 2004, Brown University (May 2004), Moorfields Eye Hospital Combined Teaching Session (January 2004), London School of Hygiene, ICEH (November 2003), International Health Economics Association Conference (June 2003, San Francisco), Brunnel University (February 2003), Essex University (February 2003), York University (February 2003), Aberdeen University (December 2002), Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (Nov 2001, Barcelona), Health Economics Conference (York, UK, June 2001), VA (Yale University - West Haven, April 2001), School of Public Health (Yale University, March 2001), VA (Yale University, West Haven, Feb 2001), Cowles Conference (Yale University, May 2000), VA (Northeast Program Evaluation Center, Nov 1999), School of Public Health (Yale University, October 1999), EEA Meetings (Santiago, Spain, Aug 1999), Psychiatry Department (Yale University, June 1999)
Invited lectures
Economics of Screening, Medical Screening Scoping Seminar, Science and Technology Select Committee House of Lords, London, UK, November 2007; European Glaucoma Society closed meeting, Palma, Spain, September 2007; Key note speaker on the "Quality of Life of Glaucoma Patients and Economic Evaluation", World Glaucoma Congress, Singapore, 18-21 July 2007; European Glaucoma Society closed meeting, Dubrovnic, September 2006; "Trends in the Insurance Coverage of Health Care in Europe and the USA", Annual Conference of the Economists' Association of Catalonia, (Jornades del Col.legi d'Economistes de Catalunya, 2000), Barcelona, Spain.
Other professional activity
- Member of the ESRC Peer Review College, 2010 onwards
- Director of the MSc in Economic Evaluation in Health Care since September 2006 and Director of the MSc in Health Economics since January 2007
- Organizer of the London Health Economics Group since Autumn 2009
- Member of the NICE Programme Development Group Type Diabetes 2.
- Director of PhD Studies. Economics Department, City University, 2008-2009
- Member of Hiring Search Committee, Economics Department of City University, Spring 2008 and Fall 2009
- Director of Health Services Research at the Yale University Psycho-Social Substance Abuse Research Center. 1999-2002
- Scientific Committee for the International Health Economics Association Conferences (iHEA) of 2009
- Member of the organizing committee of the 5th International Health Economists' Association (IHEA) Conference, Barcelona, June 2005
- Member of the International Health Economists' Association, the Health Economists' Study Group (UK); the Centre de Recerca en Economia de la Salut, Barcelona
- Research Associate of FEDEA Health, Spain