Dr Eleonora Fichera (B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D) - personal details

In 2003 Eleonora has completed her B.A. in Economics of International Institutions with first class at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). Her studies focused on a wide range of economic fields such as public policy, international relations, international law as well as statistics, econometrics and development economics. She became particularly interested in econometrics and development economics. Her undergraduate dissertation was awarded a prize from the Foundation “Mario Ravà”, (Rome, Italy).

Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, she worked for a year as a research assistant to Giovanni Bruno strenghtening her econometric skills. She has also been a teaching assistant in Microeconomics (year I, undegraduate level).

In 2004 she obtained a scholarship from the Institute for Research and Educational Activities (IPE, Prize Marrama, Naples) to fund the M.Sc. in Economics at the University College London (UK). After the Masters programme, she worked again as a teaching assistant in Microeconomics at Bocconi University. She has also worked as consultant in the Research, Planning and Strategy Division at the Unicredit Bank Group (Milan, Italy) on poverty trends in Italy and Germany. 

In 2006 she received a scholarship from the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham funding the Ph.D. Her thesis "An Analysis of Households' Credit Markets in Ethiopia and Malawi" was supervised by prof. Richard Disney and dr. Trudy Owens. She was awarded her doctorate in July 2010. She has teaching experience in Introduction to Macroeconomics (year I, undergraduate level). She has also worked as consultant for Oxford Policy Management analysing the Tanzanian Household Budget Survey (2007) in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania).

In October 2009 she was appointed as a Research Fellow in Health Econometrics within the CLAHRC project. She worked across three groups: Health Sciences - Economics, Econometrics and Applied Economics Research Group and the Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics at the University of Manchester.

Since November 2010 she works on hospital incentives programmes within Health Sciences-Economics.  Since 2011 she is co-director of the M.Sc. Economics of Health and module leader of Economics of Health in the Economics DA at the University of Manchester.

Royal Economic Society (RES)

UK Health Economists' Study Group (HESG);

International Health Economics Association (iHEA);

External Affiliate - Health, Econometrics and data Group, University of York (HEDG).

• Ph.D. Economics (University of Nottingham, UK)
• M.Sc. Economics (University College London, UK)
• B.A. Economics of International Institutions (Universita' L. Bocconi, Italy)

Eleonora is Research Fellow in Health Economics at the University of Manchester. Her research is funded through grants from the Department of Health Policy Research Programme and the NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation Programme. Eleonora's current research is focused on individual health and borrowing behaviour. She also works on providers financial incentives for quality improvement in the English NHS. 

Together with Dr. Mario Pezzino she has organised the workshops series in Health and Applied Economics funded with a small grant from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. She is also co-director of the M.Sc. Economics of Health and module leader of Economics of Health in the Economics DA at the University of Manchester.

• 2011- : Module Leader of Economics of Health and Pathway Co-Director of the M.Sc. Economics of Health.
• 2010: Supervision of Tom Mason (M.Sc. Economics)
• 2008: Teaching assistant – University of Nottingham, Introduction to Macroeconomics (Undergraduate, Year I).
• 2004 and 2006: Teaching assistant – Bocconi University, Microeconomics (Undergraduate, Year I)