Benedetta Pongiglione

Benedetta Pongiglione is Researcher of Health Economics & HTA of the Knowledge Group Government, Health and Not for Profit at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Since 2018, she has been member of CERGAS, centre for research on health and social care management.

Her main research interests focus on health inequalities and trajectories of healthy ageing and understanding their causes and consequences. She investigates individual and aggregate determinants of health using demographic and epidemiological approach combined with health economics. Her current research projects include telemedicine and its efficacy on adherence to therapies and the assessment of indirect impact of Covid-19 on chronic diseases.

At SDA Bocconi, Benedetta has contributed to several research projects, including the European project COMED focused on the evaluation of medical devices and the use of real-word data for cost and outcome analysis. She has been recently involved in research project financed by Fondazione Cariplo and Sanofi.

Her work has been published in Social Science and Medicine, the International Journal of Epidemiology, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, PlosOne, Population Studies, Population Space and Place. Benedetta was awarded with the best doctoral thesis Bradford-Hill Prize, for the metodological research in epidemiology and biostatistics. She obtained the national scientific qualification for Associate Professor in Demography and Social Statistics in 2021. She is member of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP), Population Association of America (PAA) and the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), as well as International Health Economics Association (iHEA), and the Italian Association for Health Economics (AIES).

Benedetta earned a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, completed the European Doctoral School of Demography program and holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Teaching domains

• Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence
• Health Inequalities
• Survival Analysis
• Determinants of Health and Health Expenditure

Latest publications

PONGIGLIONE B., TORBICA A. How real can we get in generating real world evidence? Exploring the opportunities of routinely collected administrative data for evaluation of medical devices Health Economics, 2022, vol.31, no. S1, pp.25-43

KLEIN P., BLOMMESTEIN H., AL M., PONGIGLIONE B., TORBICA A., DE GROOT S. Real-world evidence in health technology assessment of high-risk medical devices: Fit for purpose? Health Economics, 2022, vol.31, no. S1, pp.10-24

MÖLLENKAMP M., PONGIGLIONE B., RABBE S., TORBICA A., SCHREYÖGG J. Spillover effects and other determinants of medical device uptake in the presence of a medical guideline: An analysis of drug-eluting stents in Germany and Italy Health Economics, 2022, vol.31, no. S1, pp.157-178

RABBE S., MÖLLENKAMP M., PONGIGLIONE B., BLOMMESTEIN H., WETZELAER P., HEINE R., SCHREYÖGG J. Variation in the utilization of medical devices across Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands: A multilevel approach Health Economics, 2022, vol.31, no. S1, pp.135-156

PONGIGLIONE B., PLOUBIDIS G., DOWD J. B. Older adults in the US have worse cardiometabolic health compared to England The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, May, 2022, vol.77, no. Supplement_2, pp.167–176

PACCAGNELLA O., PONGIGLIONE B. Depression deterioration of older adults during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe Social Science & Medicine, 2022, pp.114828

Grants & Honors

• Bradford-Hill Prize, Award for best PhD thesis relevant to methodological research in epidemiology or biostatistics - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , 2018
• Best poster award, Research Degree Students’ Poster Day, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , 2016