Researchers

Leadership

Armando N. Meier, Co-chair
Senior Research Fellow of Health Economics
Unisanté and Faculty of Biology & Medicine (FBM)

Interests: behavioral economics, vaccination uptake, pandemic behavior, labor economics, mental health and addiction, obesity, causal inference, policy evaluation
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Joachim Marti, Co-chair
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

Mauricio Avendano
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
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Jürgen Maurer
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
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Sonja Vogt
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
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Dominic Rohner
Professor of Economics
Faculty of Business & Economics (HEC)

Interests: determinants and consequences of conflict, vaccine hesitancy, impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns, sustainability, pandemic policy
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