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Biography

Dr. Igna Bonfrer is Associate Professor of Global Health Economics at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management.

Together with a brilliant team including PhD candidates from India, Peru, Uganda, Zambia and the Netherlands, I aim to do impactful research and provide some of the knowledge base necessary to improve health care systems across low- and middle-income countries. I am particularly interested in health care financing and have studied this while at the University of Oxford, ����ֱ�� and during my postdoc at Harvard University. 

My work has been published in among others The British Medical Journal, Health Affairs, Social Science & Medicine and PLOS Global Public Health. An overview of my publications can be found on Google Scholar.

I try to create a supportive and friendly environment for outstanding impactful research and received the "Best PhD Supervisor Award 2024".

I coordinate both the BSc course Global Challenges in Health & Behaviour and the MSc course Global Health Economics (average student evaluation 4.5 out of 5). Topics include “causal evaluation of health care financing reforms”, “decolonizing global health” and “making a career in global health”.

I am Director of the Rotterdam Global Health Initiative, the multi-disciplinary global health research and education network of the ����ֱ�� and those who have sought our expertise on health and health care in low- and middle-income countries, with 250+ members.

I have been asked to share my expertise with the World Health Organization and several NGOs. 

I serve as Academic Editor for PLOS Global Public Health.

I did my post-doc with the .

I received research funding from various competitive sources including the Rubicon Fellowship from the Dutch Research Council, World Health Organization, the EU's Marie Curie CoFund, and the Erasmus Trustfund. I was honoured with the Nautilus Award for outstanding contribution from the University of Oxford and with the Prof. H.W. Lambers Prize from the ����ֱ��.

An illustration of our earlier work for pregnant women in India: