CO-ACTION

DEdiCADE

Validation study

My work is dedicated to informing healthcare resource allocation toward outcomes that maximise public value. My research focuses on questions such as:

• What is the economic impact of diseases, and which treatments deliver the greatest value for money?
• How can healthcare data be leveraged to drive informed, personalised and equitable decisions?
• To what extent do public and private sector interests align—or conflict—with patient and societal needs?

I conduct economic evaluations and develop decision-analytic models that estimate the costs and clinical effectiveness of both existing and emerging interventions across a broad range of diseases, with a focus on musculoskeletal conditions.

My work involves using real-world data that is routinely collected from observational datasets like CPRD, HES, or patient registries in the UK and internationally. Additionally, I work with health data mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model enabling network analyses across multiple national and international datasets. Alongside my research, I teach the health economics module for the MSc in Musculoskeletal Sciences and I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I began my career as a researcher in Italy, where I studied Political and Public Economics. During my time as an exchange student in Spain, I became interested in Health Economics. This led me to pursue an MRes and a PhD in Health Economics in the UK. I am a traveller driven by intellectual curiosity, eager to learn from the perspectives of colleagues and students across diverse fields and cultures.