Professor of Health Economics in the Lancaster University Division of Health Research, UK. She has a PhD in Public Health Economics, a Master's degree in European Social Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. She was Assistant Professor of Health Economics at the National School of Public Health (2001-2014). She worked at the Ministry of Health's Institute for Informatics and Financial Management (now ACSS) in the Management Information Systems Development department between 1995 and 2001, where she was the executive responsible for the Financing System/Classification System in Homogeneous Diagnosis Groups. As a researcher she works mainly in the area of economic evaluation of health technologies, measuring efficiency, equity and quality of life. She is president of the Portuguese Association of Health Economics (APES) and one of the founders of EuHEA – European Association of Health Economics. She was the scientific coordinator of the documentary "Tudo é Nada sem Saúde" for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

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