Dr Igor Francetic

Who – I’m an Applied Economist working on Health and Healthcare.

What –  I am interested in various applied microeconomic problems in the areas of health (behaviours) and healthcare (organisation and provider's behavoiur), including: cancer detection and screening services • analysis of spillover effects in health[care] • inequalities and inequities in emergency care • selection and moral hazard in health insurance • primary care workforce • primary care networks • implications of mental health services for labour market outcomes.

How – I try to approach empirical studies with theoretical underpinnings, using microeconometric and network analysis tools and working comfortably across platforms (especially R and Stata).

Igor is an applied economist interested in health and health care. His PhD - titled "An Inquiry into Health Systems Governance: the Case of Tanzania" - focused on the identification and empirical evaluation of the implications of health systems governance for health service delivery in Tanzania. The study applied a wide range of econometric and statistical approaches using administrative, primary and secondary survey data. His PhD was enriched by extensive fieldwork for primary data collection. The research was funded by the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d).

• PhD in Public Health (University of Basel, 2019)
• International Doctoral Courses in Health Economics and Policy (Swiss Society of Health Economis [sggö], 2019)
• MSc in Economics (University of Lausanne, 2016)
• BA in Economics (University of Lugano, 2012)
• BSc in Business Administration (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland [SUPSI], 2011)

• Health Economists' Study Group UK (HESG) - Member
• Royal Economic Society (RES) - Member
• Swiss Society of Health Economics (sggö) - Member
• Croatian Health Economics Association (CHEA) - Co-founder and member of the board
• BMC Health Services Research - Editorial Board member

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