Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha
Health Economics Research Associate
Profile
Biography
Noemia joined the Department of Health Sciences (DoHS) in York as a health economist in 2020. Her research is focused on the economic aspects of public and global health, particularly in the Global South. It addresses the economic burden of neglected diseases and diseases of poverty, healthcare finance and inequalities, and economic evaluation. Before joining York, Noemia was a post-doctoral researcher at Liverpool School and Tropical Medicine, where she led the health economics work package of tuberculosis (TB) related projects in Nepal and Vietnam.
Noemia is an honorary researcher at the LSTM, contributing to TB projects addressing social protection and active case finding in Nepal. In York, Noemia works with partners in India, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Nigeria and Nepal as part of large urban health consortiums. She is investigating healthcare access and utilization inequalities using data from health and wellbeing surveys in urban informal settlements.
Additionally, Noemia has led projects funded by GSK in Brazil to investigate the economic impact of pertussis and invasive meningococcal disease long-term sequelae. Still, Noemia has solid partnerships with FIOCRUZ and CIDACS in Brazil, contributing to projects focusing on social protection and infectious diseases.
Noemia has also contributed to teaching activities at the Masters in Public Health at DoHS.
Qualifications
- Graduation in Fishing Engineering: Universidade Federal Rual de Penambuco, Brazil
- Diploma in Health Service Evaluation, IMIP - Brazil
- MSc in Health Service Evaluation, IMIP - Brazil
- PhD in Public Health and Policy, LSHTM - London
Departmental roles
Co-lead the module Public Health Foundation and Practice, MPH.
Research
Overview
- Primary data collection for epidemiological and cost studies
- Economic evaluation methods at health care and community level
- Methods: cost and cost-effectiveness analysis, ingredient approach, decision analysis, one way and probabilistic senstivity analysis, bootstrapping, catastrophic health expenditures, inequity in health expenditures
- Development of questionnaires for cost data collection for patients' interview
- Systematic and scooping reviews
Projects
ARISE: Accountability and Responsiveness in Informal Settlements for Equity - a research consortium working in India, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone and Kenya, set up to enhance accountability and improve the health and well-being of marginalised populations living in informal urban settlements in low- and middle-income countries.
IMPACT TB: Project to find and treat cases of TB in communities in both Nepal and Vietnam.
Research group(s)
Supervision
Economic evaluation of infectious diseases, neglected and diseases of poverty in low and middle-income countries.