Ruben Rojas
BSc, MSc
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
PhD student
Full contact details
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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I am a PhD student under the remote location scheme, under the supervision of Professor Aki Tsuchiya and Dr. Praveen Thokala.
I did my undergraduate studies in business administration at Universidad Diego Portales, in Chile. After working for 15 years in corporate finances and stock markets, I decided to move my career to an activity more oriented to public policy and population wellbeing, in health care specifically.
After enrolling in a certificate in clinical public research methods in 2012, I entered the three-year program in Health Economics at The University of York given by distance learning (PGCert, PGDip and MSc), finally in 2016 I got the Degree of Master of Science in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment.
I work as a researcher in the Health Technology Assessment Unit at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My main job is to do research in health economics and undertake cost-effectiveness studies, including model design of several types of representations for health care decision making (cohort, individual, discrete event, population, system dynamics, and resource utilisation).
Supervisors
- Professor Aki Tsuchiya
- Dr. Praveen Thokala
- Research interests
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PhD title
Balancing priorities: Identification, measurement and valuation of drivers for decision making in health care resource allocation. A multi-criteria analysis of NICE decisions in UK and a comparison with other jurisdictions.
My research interests are: Decision science, group decision making, behavioural economics, multi criteria decision analysis, health economics, equity, social values, modelling methods for health technology assessment.
- Teaching interests
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Currently I work as Co-Lecturer in Health Economics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.