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
- 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]
- 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]
- Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Pierre Koning, Owen O'Donnell & Carlos Riumalló-Herl (2023) - Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management - doi: 10.1002/pam.22560 - [link]
- Nilmini Wijemunige, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, Pieter van Baal & Owen O’Donnell (2023) - Optimizing cardiovascular disease risk screening in a low-resource setting: cost-effectiveness of program modifications in Sri Lanka modelled with nationally representative survey data - BMC Public Health, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16640-5 - [link]
- Sanjay K. Mohanty, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Suraj Maiti, Radhe Shyam Mishra, Fabrice Kämpfen, Jürgen Maurer & Owen O'Donnell (2023) - Public health insurance coverage in India before and after PM-JAY: Repeated cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative survey data - BMJ Global Health, 8 (8) - doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012725 - [link]
- Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Joseph Capuno, Aleli Kraft, Jenny Kudymowa & Owen O’Donnell (2023) - Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative survey data - BMC Public Health, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15517-x - [link]
- Sanjay K. Mohanty, Abhilasha, Radhe Shyam Mishra, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Owen O’Donnell & Jürgen Maurer (2023) - Sociodemographic and geographic inequalities in diagnosis and treatment of older adults’ chronic conditions in India: a nationally representative population-based study - Bmc Health Services Research, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09318-6 - [link]
- Sanjay K. Mohanty, Mayanka Ambade, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Radhe Shyam Mishra, Sarang P. Pedgaonkar, Fabrice Kampfen, Owen O'Donnell & Jürgen Maurer (2023) - Prevalence of pain and its treatment among older adults in India: A nationally representative population-based study - Pain, 164 (2), 336-348 - doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002705 - [link]
- Nilmini Wijemunige, Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya, Jürgen Maurer & Owen O'Donnell (2022) - Cost-Effectiveness and Distributional Impact of Opportunistic Screening for People at High-Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Sri Lanka: A Modelling Study - Global Heart, 17 (1) - doi: 10.5334/gh.1174 - [link]
- Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Koning Pierre, Owen O'Donnell & Carlos Riumallo Herl (2022) - Selective Exercise of Discretion in Disability Insurance Awards - [link]
- Aurélien Baillon, Owen O'Donnell, Stella Quimbo & Kim van Wilgenburg (2022) - Do time preferences explain low health insurance take-up? - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 89 (4), 951-983 - doi: 10.1111/jori.12395 - [link]
- Joseph Capuno, Aleli Kraft, Kayleen Gene Calicdan & Owen O’Donnell (2022) - Associations between health-related quality of life and measures of adiposity among Filipino adults - PLoS ONE, 17 - doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275798 - [link]
- Samarul Islam, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Sanjay K. Mohanty, Sarang P. Pedgaonkar, Jürgen Maurer & Owen O'Donnell (2022) - Use of unclean cooking fuels and visual impairment of older adults in India: A nationally representative population-based study - Environment international, 165 - doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107302 - [link]
- Aurélien Baillon, Aleli Kraft, Owen O’Donnell & Kim van Wilgenburg (2022) - A behavioral decomposition of willingness to pay for health insurance - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 64 (1), 43-87 - doi: 10.1007/s11166-022-09371-2 - [link]
- Sanjay K. Mohanty, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Prashant Shekhar, Fabrice Kämpfen, Owen O'Donnell & Jürgen Maurer (2022) - Missed opportunities for hypertension screening:: a cross-sectional study, India - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 100 (1), 30-39B - doi: 10.2471/BLT.21.287007 - [link]
- Teresa Bago d’Uva & Owen O’Donnell (2022) - Explaining Probability Judgment Inaccuracy: A Lens Model Extended Decomposition of the Brier Score - Decision, 9 (1), 74-90 - doi: 10.1037/dec0000163 - [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
Master Thesis HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4592M
Introduction to Strategy Economics
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEB13044
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
Global Health Economics
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4582M
Economics of Health and Health Care HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4535M
