Maddalena Ferranna, PhD, has joined the Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics as an assistant professor, effective August 16. She has also been appointed an in-residence fellow with the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.
Prior to joining USC, she was a research associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her main research interests are welfare economics, global health and climate change economics, particularly the development and application of methods to assess the equity implications of health and environmental interventions.
She received a PhD in economics from Toulouse School of Economics and was a values and public policy postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.