Eduardo Costa is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Economics at the Department of Engineering and Management of Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and a researcher at CEGIST. His research is focused on Health Economics, particularly in topics related to the sustainability and efficiency of public health spending, competition in the pharmaceutical market, and on the economic impact of health professionals. He is currently the president of the Portuguese Association for Health Economics. Additionally, he is also a member of the National Health Technology Assessment Commission and of the National NHS Reference Centres Commission. He is also adjunct faculty at Nova School of Business and Economics. He has significant consulting and research experience in national and international projects on health economics and policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics, and was a visiting researcher at the Boston University and at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also worked as a research fellow at the Lancaster University. For more information, check my website.

Keywords: Health economics | Applied economics | Health policy