Biography
Owen O'Donnell is Professor of Applied Economics in the Erasmus School of Economics and the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management. He is a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute. His research is in the field of health economics, with particular attention to health inequality, health & labour, health insurance & financial protection and health behaviour & prevention. He applies economics to challenges facing health systems in low- middle- and high-income countries. He has published in the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, Demography, Lancet and PLOS Medicine, among others. He is an Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. He obtained his DPhil from the University of York (UK) and has taught at the universities of Macedonia (GR), Lausanne (CH), Kent (UK) and Wisconsin-Madison (US).
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Full professor | Health Economics (HE)
- odonnell@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer & Owen O'Donnell (2025) - Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data - Social Science and Medicine, 365 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117591 - [link]
- Sanjay K. Mohanty, Junaid Khan, Suraj Maiti, Fabrice Kämpfen, Jürgen Maurer & Owen O'Donnell (2025) - Healthcare inequity arising from unequal response to need in the older (45+ years) population of India: Analysis of nationally representative data - Social Science and Medicine, 364 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117535 - [link]
- Aleli D. Kraft, Joseph J. Capuno, Kayleen Gene R. Calicdan, Grace T. Cruz & Owen O'Donnell (2024) - Missed opportunities for hypertension screening of older people in the Philippines: cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data - The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 50 - doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101188 - [link]
- Raf van Gestel, Daniel Avdic & Owen O'Donnell (2024) - Benchmarking clinical practice on treatment gain inequality-probability bounds - Contributions to Economic Analysis, 297, 229-239 - doi: 10.1108/s0573-855520240000297011 - [link]
- Jawa Issa, Tom Van Ourti, Pieter van Baal & Owen O'Donnell (2024) - Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006-2021 - Demography, 61 (4), 1143-1159 - doi: 10.1215/00703370-11460856 - [link]
- Nilmini Wijemunige, Pieter van Baal, Ravindra P Rannan-Eliya & Owen O'Donnell (2024) - Health outcomes and healthcare utilization associated with four undiagnosed chronic conditions: evidence from nationally representative survey data in Sri Lanka - BMC Global and Public Health, 2 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s44263-024-00075-0
- Nilmini Wijemunige, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, H. M.M. Herath & Owen O'Donnell (2024) - The Prevalence and Epidemiological Features of Ischaemic Heart Disease in Sri Lanka - Global Heart, 19 (1) - doi: 10.5334/gh.1330 - [link]
- Owen O'Donnell (2024) - Health and health system effects on poverty: A narrative review of global evidence - Health Policy, 142 - doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105018 - [link]
- Matthew Robson, Owen O'Donnell & Tom Van Ourti (2024) - Aversion to health inequality — Pure, income-related and income-caused - Journal of Health Economics, 94 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102856 - [link]
- Shaun Da Costa, Owen O'Donnell & Raf van Gestel (2024) - Distributionally Sensitive Measurement and Valuation of Population Health - Journal of Health Economics, 93 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102847 - [link]
- Owen O'Donnell (2018) - Journal of Health Economics (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Owen O'Donnell (2018) - Journal of Health Economics (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Owen O'Donnell (2007) - Health Economics (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic
Elsevier (Journal of Health Economics)
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- AMSTERDAM (WORK ONLINE)
- Description
- Editorial
Economics of Health and Health Care HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4535M
Health Economics
- Level
- Master
- Year Level
- Master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- TIF20131
Economics of Health and Health Care HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4568M
Master Thesis HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4555M
Introduction to Strategy Economics
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEB13044
Global Health Economics
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4582M
Master Thesis HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4592M
