Leadership
Mauricio Avendano, Co-director,
Professor of Health Policy
Unisanté and Faculty of Biology & Medicine (FBM)
Interests: health inequalities, the economics of ageing, the impact of social policies on health, poverty and youth mental health, health policy evaluation
Personal website
Joachim Marti, Co-director,
Professor of Health Economics
Unisanté and Faculty of Biology & Medicine (FBM)
Interests: economic evaluation, health equity, health financing, causal inference and policy evaluation, end-of-life care, insurance choice
UNIL website
Jürgen Maurer, Co-director
Professor of Economics
Faculty of Business & Economics (HEC)
Interests: health behaviors, health inequalities, aging, end-of-life issues, cognition, human development and wellbeing, global health, population research, survey methods
Personal website, CV
Sonja Vogt, Co-director, Professor of Strategy Faculty of Business & Economics (HEC)
Interests: health behaviors, large-scale behavioral change, social tipping, fairness behavior, cultural norms, laboratory and field experiments, sustainability
Personal website
Clémence Kieny is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with the Lausanne University Center for Primary Care and Public Health (unisanté) and the Lausanne Center for Health Economics, Behavior, and Policy (LCHE-UNIL). She is an economist with a PhD from the University of Lausanne. Her work lies at the intersection of mental health, human capital, and aging, with a particular focus on policy-relevant causal evidence. She contributes to several large-scale randomized evaluations in Latin America, including digital mental health interventions targeting vulnerable youth in Colombia and Brazil, where she is involved in survey development, impact evaluation, and economic analyses. She also works closely with the Gateway to Global Aging on research related to education policy, cognitive aging, and dementia prevention.
Nathalie Monnet works as a research fellow at the Lausanne University Center for Primary Care and Public Health (unisanté) and at the Lausanne Center for Health Economic Behavior and Policy (LCHE-UNIL). She is an economist holding a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Within the research project “Strengthening mental health and human capital in a social program for vulnerable youth in Colombia”, she is part of the Swiss research team, focusing mainly on the development of survey questionnaires and impact evaluation of the intervention. She also works in collaboration with the Gateway to Global Aging Data and UNICEF Indonesia on several health-related projects.