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Home | News | Fellow Tom van Ourti appointed Professor of Applied Health Economics
News | April 17, 2015

Fellow Tom van Ourti appointed Professor of Applied Health Economics

Congratulations to TI fellow Tom van Ourti (1975) who has been appointed as endowed professor of applied health economics, with focus on health and inequality at the Erasmus School of Economics (EUR). Tom will hold this endowed chair through the Erasmus Trustfonds.

Tom van Ourti has been affiliated with the Erasmus University Rotterdam since 2004, as associate professor in health economics (2010-2015), assistant professor, (2006-2010), and lecturer (2004-2005). He was a visiting researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2007-2008. Tom van Ourti holds a PhD in economics (2004) on “Essays on inequality measurement in health, health care and finance of health care” from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Tom’s research has been financed by the AXA Research Fund, NWO and NETSPAR. He published in leading journals including Health Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics, and Social Science and Medicine. His main research interests are health economics, health disparities, inequality and poverty measurement, and microeconometrics.