José-Luis Fernández

Experience Keywords

community care; consumer directed care; elderly; health economics; social care economics

Research Summary

Dr Jose Luis Fernandez is Deputy Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at PSSRU, London School of Economics and Political Science. A health and social care economist, he specialises in ageing-related policies, the interaction between health and social care, and the economic evaluation of health and social care services and systems.

In 2010, he co-founded the International Long-term care Policy Network (ILPN) linking academics and policy makers on the analysis of long-term care, and also set-up the Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit together with the universities of Kent and York, and the Quality and Outcomes Research Unit with universities of Kent and Oxford. He has advised bodies such as the English Department of Health, the UK Treasury and the World Health Organisation.

Research Countries

Europe; Japan; UK

Languages

French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]