Francesco Ramponi

Biography

Francesco is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Dr. Stéphane Verguet on priority setting and resource allocation in low-and middle-income countries. His research interests lie in the application of economic evaluation to inform decision making in health care, with a focus on public health interventions with impacts on multiple sectors.
Prior to joining the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he was research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (University of York) and at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

Education and Training

• BSc, Economics
  University of Trieste
• MSc, Economics and Public Finance
  University of Padua
• PhD, Health Economics
  Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Publications

• Demands for Intersectoral Actions to Meet Health Challenges in East and Southern Africa and Methods for Their Evaluation.

  Ramponi F, Ssennyonjo A, Banda S, Aliti T, Nkhoma D, Kaonga O, Griffin S, Revill P, Kataika E, Nabyonga-Orem J. Value Health Reg Issues 2024

• Field performance and cost-effectiveness of a point-of-care triage test for HIV virological failure in Southern Africa.

  Saura-Lázaro A, Bock P, Bogaart EVD, van Vliet J, Granés L, Nel K, Naidoo V, Scheepers M, Saunders Y, Leal N, Ramponi F, Paulussen R, de Wit TR, Naniche D, López-Varela E. J Int AIDS Soc 2023 10

• Cost-effectiveness of community-based distribution of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  Cirera L, Sacoor C, Meremikwu M, Ranaivo L, Manun'Ebo MF, Pons-Duran C, Arikpo D, Ramirez M, Ramponi F, Figueroa-Romero A, Gonzalez R, Maly C, Roman E, Sicuri E, Pagnoni F, Menéndez C. BMJ Glob Health 2023 07

• The economic costs of malaria in pregnancy: evidence from four sub-Saharan countries.

  Cirera L, Sacoor C, Meremikwu M, Ranaivo L, F Manun'Ebo M, Arikpo D, Matavele O, Rafaralahy V, Ndombe D, Pons Duran C, Ramirez M, Ramponi F, González R, Maly C, Roman E, Sicuri E, Pagnoni F, Menéndez C. Gates Open Res 2025

• Rapid diagnostic tests for dengue would reduce hospitalizations, healthcare costs and antibiotic prescriptions in Spain: A cost-effectiveness analysis.

  Camprubí-Ferrer D, Ramponi F, Balerdi-Sarasola L, Godoy A, Sicuri E, Muñoz J. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed) 2024