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
- Fabrice Kämpfen, Owen O’Donnell, Carlos Riumalló Herl & Xavier Gómez-Olivé (2026) - Is Hypertension Screening Effective in a Low-Resource Setting?: A Multidimensional Regression Discontinuity Design - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 74 (4), 1437-1468 - doi: 10.1086/739149 - [link]
- Nilmini Wijemunige, Pieter van Baal, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya & Owen O'Donnell (2026) - Dominance-Based Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Screening in Sri Lanka - Value in Health, 29 (6), 1012-1020 - doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2025.09.3062 - [link]
- Aleli D. Kraft, Kayleen Gene R. Calicdan, Joseph J. Capuno, Mark Ryan B. Paguirigan, Christian Joy P. Cruz & Owen O'Donnell (2026) - Inequality in prevalence of unmedicated hypertension or diabetes among older Filipinos: analysis of nationally representative survey data - International Journal of Cardiology: Hypertension, 29 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijcrp.2026.200617 - [link]
- Richard Cookson, Gunjeet Kaur, Ieva Skarda, Shrathinth Venkatesh, Tim Doran, Matthew Robson, Ole F. Norheim, Owen O’Donnell & Mike Paulden (2026) - The Inequality-Adjusted Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio - Value in Health, 29 (6), 935-945 - doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2026.03.2236 - [link]
- Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer & Owen O'Donnell (2026) - Corrigendum to ‘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 & Medicine, (2025), 365, C, (117591), (S0277953624010451), 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117591) - Social Science and Medicine, 394 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118909 - [link]
- Richard Cookson, Gunjeet Kaur, Ieva Skarda, Shrathinth Venkatesh, Tim Doran, Ole F. Norheim, Mike Paulden & Owen O’Donnell (2026) - A Method for Comparing Health Inequality Impact Magnitudes, with an Illustration for Hypothetical Treatments of 1336 Diseases - PharmacoEconomics, 44 (3), 317-328 - doi: 10.1007/s40273-025-01583-z - [link]
- Vishnu Prasad Sapkota & Owen O'Donnell (2025) - Coping (more or less) with health shocks: A longitudinal perspective on financial protection from Nepal - World Development, 196 - doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107188 - [link]
- Nicole Bergen, Katherine Kirkby, Aluisio J.D. Barros, Paula Braveman, Peter Goldblatt, Theadora Swift Koller, Oscar J. Mujica, Devaki Nambiar, Owen O’Donnell, Anne Schlotheuber, Vivian Welch & Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor (2025) - Writing about health inequality: recommendations for accurate and impactful presentation of evidence - International Journal for Equity in Health, 24 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12939-025-02548-6 - [link]
- Matthew Robson, Tim Doran, Owen O’Donnell & Tom Van Ourti (2025) - Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion? - Journal of Economic Inequality, 23 (3), 933-956 - doi: 10.1007/s10888-025-09702-8 - [link]
- Wally Toh, Aurélia Lépine, Khady Gueye, Mame Mor Fall, Abdou Khoudia Diop, El Hadj Alioune Mbaye, Cheikh Tidiane Ndour & Owen O’Donnell (2025) - Effect of pre-exposure prophylaxis on risky sexual behaviour of female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal: A randomised controlled trial - PLoS Medicine, 22 (8) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004458 - [link]
- Owen O'Donnell (2018) - Journal of Health Economics (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - Owen O'Donnell (2018) - Journal of Health Economics (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Owen O'Donnell (2007) - Health Economics (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic
Elsevier (Journal of Health Economics)
- Start date approval
- maart 2026
- End date approval
- december 2026
- Place
- AMSTERDAM (WORK ONLINE)
- Description
- Editorial
Introduction to Strategy Economics
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEB13044
Master Thesis HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4592M
Economics of Health and Health Care HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4568M
Economics of Health and Health Care HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4535M
Global Health Economics
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4582M
Health Economics
- Level
- Master
- Year Level
- Master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- TIF20131
Master Thesis HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4555M
