Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet

Overview

Professor Jofre-Bonet has now a fractional appointment at City and has become the Head of Research at the Office of Health Economics. As part of her new joint role, Mireia is creating new and strengthening existing research and enterprise links between the City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) and the Office of Health Economics in the form of joint grants, MSc and PhD studentships and a Knowledge Transfer Partnership.

From 2007 to 2019, Mireia was the Director of the MSc in Health Economics and the MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare at City, University of London. 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.

Mireia is an economist specialised in health economics. She has worked on a broad spectrum of Health Economics subjects including Lifestyle and Health Behaviour Decision Making; topics in Industrial Organisation applied to the Health Care sector and Pharmaceutical Regulation; Willingness To Pay for Health Insurance Schemes by the informal sector in low and middle income countries; Environmental factors and children’s health and wellbeing (domestic violence, maternal working hours; intergenerational transmission of health & behaviours); Adaptation to Health States; and, Migration and adaptation.

Mireia is a Senior Associated Researcher at LSE Health Policy (London School of Economics and Political Sciences), collaborates with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, belongs to the London International Development Centre, and is an Expert Advisor for the NICE Centre for Guidelines and the ESRC Peer Review College. She has been a Core Member of NICE Public Health Committee and has contributed to health economics projects and reviews public institutions -including the UK Department of Health, the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme, the Sierra Leone National Social Insurance Trust and the Catalan and the Balearic Island's Departments of Health. Mireia is a member of the Health Economics Study Group and AES (Asociación Economía Salud, Spain).

Employment

• Head of Research, Office of Health Economics, Apr 2019 – present
• Deputy Head of the Department of Economics, City, University of London, 2018 – 2019
• Director of PhD Studies, City, University of London, Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
• Director of the MSc in Health Economics, City, University of London, 2007 – 2019
• Director of the MSc in Economic Evaluation in Health Care, City, University of London, 2006 – 2019
• Director of Health Services Research, Yale University, New Haven, 1999 – 2002

Memberships of committees

• Member, Scientific Committee for the International Health Economics Association Conferences (iHEA), 2009
• Member, Hiring Search Committee, Economics Department, City, University of London, 2008 – 2009
• Member, Organising Committee of the 5th International Health Economists' Association (IHEA) Conference, Barcelona, Jun 2005 – present

Memberships of professional organisations

• Member, ESRC Peer Review College, 2010 – present
• Organiser, London Health Economics Group, 2009 – present
• Member, NICE Programme Development Group - Type 2 Diabetes
• Member, International Health Economists' Association Health Economists' Study Group (UK); the Centre de Recerca en Economia de la Salut, Barcelona
• Research Associate, FEDEA Health, Spain

Research Interests

Fields of interest include: health production functions and lifestyle decisions; adaptation to health states; the impact of substance abuse and mental health on productivity; economic evaluation applied to substance abuse and to eye disease; topics of industrial organisation applied to the demand for health care and topics of industrial organisation and research policy.

Featured publications

1. El-Shal, A., Cubi-Molla, P. and Jofre-Bonet, M. (2021). Accreditation as a quality-improving policy tool: family planning, maternal health, and child health in Egypt. The European Journal of Health Economics, 22(1), pp. 115–139. doi:10.1007/s10198-020-01240-6.
2. Kamara, J., Jofre-Bonet, M. and Mesnard, A. (2018). A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit the Willingness to
   Pay for Health Insurance by the Informal Sector Workers in
   Sierra Leone. International Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 3(1).

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3. Jofre-Bonet, M. and Kamara, J. (2018). Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance in the Informal Sector of Sierra Leone. PLoS ONE, 13(5). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189915.
4. Jofre-Bonet, M., Serra-Sastre, V. and Vandoros, S. (2018). The impact of the Great Recession on health-related risk factors, behaviour and outcomes in England. Social Science and Medicine, 197, pp. 213–225. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.010.
5. Cubí‐Mollá, P., Jofre‐Bonet, M. and Serra‐Sastre, V. (2017). Adaptation to health states: Sick yet better off? Health Economics, 26(12), pp. 1826–1843. doi:10.1002/hec.3509.
6. Banal-Estañol, A., Jofre-Bonet, M. and Lawson, C. (2015). The double-edged sword of industry collaboration: Evidence from engineering academics in the UK. Research Policy, 44(6), pp. 1160–1175. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2015.02.006.
7. Harding-Esch, E., Jofre-Bonet, M., Dhanjal, J.K., Burr, S., Edwards, T., Holland, M. … Bailey, R. (2015). Costs of Testing for Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Compared to Mass Drug Administration for Trachoma in The Gambia: Application of Results from the PRET Study. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(4). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003670.
8. Jofre-Bonet, M. and Pesendorfer, M. (2014). Optimal sequential auctions. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 33, pp. 61–71. doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2014.02.002.
9. Jofre-Bonet, M. and Pesendorfer, M. (2014). Optimal Sequential Auctions
   (Forthcoming). International Journal of Industrial Organization.
10. Costa-Font, J., Jofre-Bonet, M. and Yen, S.T. (2013). Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited. Kyklos, 66(4), pp. 529–551.
11. Costa-Font, J. and Jofre-Bonet, M. (2013). Anorexia, Body Image and Peer Effects: Evidence from a Sample of European Women. Economica, 80(317), pp. 44–64.
12. Costa-Font, J., Jofre-Bonet, M. and Yen, S.T. (2013). Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited. Kyklos, 66(4), pp. 529–551.
13. Costa-Font, J. and Jofre-Bonet, M. (2008). Is there a 'secession of the wealthy'? Private health insurance uptake and National Health System support. Bulletin of Economic Research, 60(3), pp. 265–287. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8586.2008.00285.x.
14. Jofre-Bonet, M. and Petry, N.M. (2008). Trading apples for oranges?. Results of an experiment on the effects of Heroin and Cocaine price changes on addicts' polydrug use. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66(2), pp. 281–311. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2006.05.002.
15. Costa-Font, J. and Jofre-Bonet, M. (2006). Are private health insurance subscribers unsatisfied with the Spanish national health system? Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 31(4), pp. 650–668.
16. Jofre-Bonet, M., Busch, S.H., Falba, T.A. and Sindelar, J.L. (2005). Poor mental health and smoking: interactive impact on wages. Journal of Mental Health Policy Economics, 8(4), pp. 193–203.
17. Busch, S., Falba, T., Duchovny, N., Jofre-Bonet, M., O'Malley, S. and Sindelar, J. (2004). Value to smokers of improved cessation products: evidence from a willingness-to-pay survey. Nicotine Tob Res, 6(4), pp. 631–639. doi:10.1080/14622200410001727885.
18. Busch, S.H., Jofre-Bonet, M., Falba, T.A. and Sindelar, J.L. (2004). Burning a hole in the budget: tobacco spending and its crowd-out of other goods. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 3(4), pp. 263–272.
19. Jofre-Bonet, M. and Pesendorfer, M. (2003). Estimation of a dynamic auction game. Econometrica, 71(5), pp. 1443–1489.
20. Jofre-Bonet, M. (2000). Public health care and private insurance demand: the waiting time as a link. Health Care Management Science, 3(1), pp. 51–71.
21. Jofre-Bonet, M. (2000). Health care: Private and/or public provision. European Journal of Political Economy, 16(3), pp. 469–489. doi:10.1016/S0176-2680(99)00063-4.

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