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Gianluca Fabiano

PhD, MRes, AFHEA


Senior Researcher in Health Economics

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.