Antoine Lacombe
PhD candidate in Health Economics
I am a quantitative health economist and PhD candidate at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE, Aix-Marseille Université).
My research focuses on how quantitative methods can support health decision-making, with applications in infectious-disease prevention, diagnostic strategies, and public health policy. I am particularly interested in the evaluation of health interventions, the behavioural drivers of uptake, and the production of evidence relevant to HEOR and economic evaluation.
Methodologically, I combine applied econometrics, patient preference methods, real-world and survey data to produce decision-relevant evidence in health. My work includes the design and analysis of stated-preference studies and the use of choice models to study preference heterogeneity and behavioural responses. I also use econometric modelling to analyse heterogeneous outcomes, policy impacts, and the relationships between behaviours, outcomes, and costs, with a growing focus on HEOR and economic evaluation.
I currently contribute to projects on improving the acceptability and accessibility of countermeasures against emerging epidemic threats (ACME, Institut Pasteur). Alongside this work, I am expanding my research toward economic evaluation, with growing interest in cost-effectiveness analysis, resource allocation, and the evaluation of health technologies in real-world settings.
Feel free to reach out: antoine.lacombe@univ-amu.fr.
Research topics
Applied econometrics · Patient preferences · Infectious-disease prevention · Diagnostic testing · HEOR and economic evaluation
Toolkit
- HEOR & evaluation: evidence generation, RWE, health policy evaluation, economic evaluation
- Econometrics: advanced applied econometrics, causal inference, policy evaluation, panel and time-to-event models
- Preference methods: DCEs, PVE, choice modelling with Apollo, survey design and analysis
- Data & software: R, STATA, SQL, SNDS/administrative data, SAS (intermediate), Python (basic)
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