Joan Costa-i-Font

Joan Costa-i-Font works as a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as a faculty associate of LSE Health and the International Inequalities Institute, where he leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab and co-leads the perceptions of inequality program. Joan is a highly-cited health economist with extensive contributions to the field, having authored over a hundred articles in leading academic journals. His research primarily focuses on healthy aging and inequality broadly defined, and he is interested in questions at the borders of health economics, behavioral economics, and political economy. Costa-i-Font has extensive experience as a consultant for numerous national and international organizations, such as the House of Lords, NIHR, Public Health England, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Health Organization. In addition to serving as the principal investigator on multiple research projects, he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Economics for Environment, Climate Change, and Health (WHO TAG-EconECH). He has authored and edited books, with recent titles including “The Political Economy of Health and Health Care: The Rise of the Patient Citizen” and “Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy: Steering for Health.”