New WP: responses to the public health alert during Zika epidemic in Brazil 2015/6, with the brilliant Ildo Lautharte Use mns of admin records to show dynamic hh responses: delayed preg, abortion, birth outcomes such as microcephaly) homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpimr/resea… Claudio Ferraz World Health Organization (WHO)

Next text for Harvard principles econ? @noahpinion suggests... us! "a more syncretic vision than the Olympian wisdom dispensed by Mankiw’s texts, and focusing more on hands-on data analysis [... CORE Econ has] the advantage of being free" bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Introductory economics education should include a much bigger hands-on empirical component. I like what CORE Econ is doing. They could be the next "consensus" textbook for introductory econ. core-econ.org

Amanhã (08/04), às 11h, assista ao webinar aberto “Produzir, ler e interpretar dados da pandemia” em parceria com a @agencia_bori e Instituto Serrapilheira, com os especialistas Pedro Hallal, Paula Spinola, Fernanda Campagnucci e Marcelo Soares. Saiba mais em nosso site: escoladedados.org/2020/04/webina…

Interested in #healtheconomics? Speak with our staff and current students to learn more about our programme and find out what it’s like to study UCL at our Virtual Open Day on 25 June 2020, 1pm BST. Register here: tinyurl.com/y7zbnam5

My paper (with Rudi Rocha and @Isabela9Furtado) on Brazilian health spending needs for the next decades - now available on Health Economics! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he…

Our paper just published at The Lancet Global Health on the interplay of Covid spread and socioeconomic inequalities in Brazil (joint work with Rudi Rocha Beatriz Rache Rifat Atun Marcia Castro Adriano Massuda L Nunes & M Lagos): sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Paula Spinola et al explore impact of socioeconomic inequalities on health-system preparedness & response to COVID-19 in Brazil. They find that existing socioeconomic inequalities affected course of the epidemic, with adverse burden on highly socioeconomically vulnerable regions

Hello we have a new report with Institute for Fiscal Studies & NHS Confederation looking at the history of NHS spending, modelling required NHS spending till it's 85 & some options for funding this increase health.org.uk/publication/se…