Rosanna Tarricone

Rosanna Tarricone is the Associate Dean at SDA Bocconi School of Management and Associate Professor in Public Administration at Università Bocconi, Department of Social and Political Science, Milan. She graduated in Business Administration at Università Bocconi and holds an MSc in Health Services Management and a PhD in Public Health and Policy, both from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK. She has over 100 publications in the areas of health policy, healthcare management, the economic analysis of health care services and health technology assessment (HTA).

In the last 10 years Rosanna has been awarded over 10 multi-annual competitive research grants from international institutions such as the European Union, the Swiss Bridge Award and InHealth (USA). She has been the leader of MedtecHTA, a major, three-year EU-funded research project which has made recommendations on how to improve methods for assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of medical devices and she currently serves as a scientific supervisor of COMED, a three-year EU-funded research project on improving assessment methods of costs and outcome analysis of medical technologies, including mhealth.

Rosanna serves as an expert for the DG Research and DG Health of the European Commission. She facilitates the continuous exchange of experiences and harmonization of methods and procedures between the HTA Agencies of the EU Member States within EUnetHTA. Since 2007 Rosanna has been an advisor for the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Italy and has contributed to the design and development of the National Programme of HTA for Medical Devices. She is part of the Panel of Experts aimed at advising the MoH on the future of the Italian National Health Service.

Between 2005 and 2010 Rosanna held the position of Director of Economic Affairs at Medtech Europe and contributed to developing research and generating robust evidence around medical devices by launching the European Health Technology Institute for Socio-Economic Research, a partnership between European universities (Università Bocconi, London School of Economics and Technische Universität Berlin) and policymakers (European Commission, WHO).

Rosanna is an active member of ISPOR. She served on the ISPOR Board of Directors from 2016-2018, and currently chairs the Publications Management Advisory Board (MAB). She was Co-Chair of the 2019 North America Conference in New Orleans. Rosanna is also a member of iHEA (International Health Economics Association) and of HTAi (Health Technology Assessment International).

Teaching domains

• Health Technology Assessment
• HTA Governance Systems
• Medical Devices and Healthcare Programs
• National and International Health Regulation
• Economic Evaluations of Drugs

Latest publications

FERRARA L., OTTO M., AAPRO M., ALBREHT T., JONSSON B., OBERST S., OLIVER K., PISANI E., PRESTI P., RUBIO I. T., TERKOLA R., TARRICONE R. How to improve efficiency in cancer care: Dimensions, methods, and areas of evaluation Journal of Cancer Policy, 2022, vol.34, pp.100355

ARDITO V., FEDERICI C. B., FURNARI A., CIANI O., TARRICONE R. Esiti di salute e performance del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale in Rapporto OASI 2022 CERGAS (Eds),Egea, chap. 7, pp.285-346, 2022

TORBICA A., TARRICONE R., SCHREYÖGG J., DRUMMOND M. Pushing the boundaries of evaluation, diffusion, and use of medical devices in Europe: Insights from the COMED project Health Economics, 2022, vol.31, no. S1, pp.1-9

TARRICONE R., PETRACCA F., CUCCINIELLO M., CIANI O. Recommendations for developing a lifecycle, multidimensional assessment framework for mobile medical apps Health Economics, 2022, vol.31, no. S1, pp.73-97

ROGNONI C., BARCELLONA M. R., BARGELLINI I., BAVETTA M. G., BELLÒ M., BRUNETTO M., CARUCCI P., CIONI R., CROCETTI L., D’AMATO F., D’AMICO M., DEAGOSTINI S., DEANDREIS D., DE SIMONE P., DORIGUZZI A., FINESSI M., FONIO P., GRIMALDI S., IALUNA S., LAGATTUTA F., MASI G., MORECI A., SCALISI D., VIRDONE R., TARRICONE R. Cost-effectiveness analysis of personalised versus standard dosimetry for selective internal radiation therapy with TheraSphere in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma Frontiers in Oncology, 2022, vol.12, pp.1-10

PERILLI R., MARIOTTI S. P., MASTROPASQUA L., BANDELLO F. M., GRIGIONI M., TARRICONE R., PETRACCA F., CONSOLI A. Welcoming teleretinography into diabetes integrated care European Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022, vol.32, no. 4, pp.2382-2387

Grants & Honors

• Servizio di ricerca e sviluppo per la realizzazione del progetto “Sanità 2.0” - Direzione Generale della Programmazione Sanitaria - Ministero Della Salute , 2019
• H2020 – COMED Pushing the boundaries of cost and outcome analysis of medical technologies. Leading coordinator - European Commission , 2018
• IMPACT – HTA Improved methods and actionable tools for enhancing HTA. WP Co-leader - European Commission , 2018
• Individuazione di metodologie di analisi degli eventi avversi, sia in fase pre-market che in fase post-market, utilizzando le nuove classificazioni sviluppate nell’ambito del “International Medical Device Regulators Forum- IMDRF” al fine della valutazione di determinanti della variabilità dei costi - Direzione Generale dei Dispositivi Medici e del Servizio Farmaceutico - Ministero Della Salute , 2018
• Valutazione dell’impatto in termini organizzativi ed economici dell’upgrade di classificazione dei dispositivi medici a seguito dell’applicazione delle nuove regole previste dai Regolamenti (UE) 2017/745 e 2017/746, in relazione alla peculiare configurazione del settore produttivo italiano - Direzione Generale dei Dispositivi Medici e del Servizio Farmaceutico - Ministero Della Salute , 2018
• Valutazione dell’impatto organizzativo ed economico delle nuove esigenze di programmazione, progettazione e conduzione delle indagini cliniche sui dispositivi medici, a seguito dell’applicazione del Regolamento (UE) 2017/745 - Direzione Generale dei Dispositivi Medici e del Servizio Farmaceutico - Ministero Della Salute , 2018
• Valutazione di impatto delle attività derivanti dagli adempimenti previsti dai nuovi Regolamenti 745 e 746 del 2017 a carico degli operatori economici, degli sponsor di indagini cliniche, degli operatori sanitari e dell’autorità competente per i dispositivi medici. Individuazione di metodologie di analisi al fine della valutazione di determinanti sui costi dei dispositivi medici - Direzione Generale dei Dispositivi Medici e del Servizio Farmaceutico - Ministero Della Salute , 2018
• Teaching Excellence Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi , 2016
• Teaching Excellence Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi , 2014
• Best Instructor of Specialised Masters Award - Masters Division - SDA Bocconi School of Management , 2013
• FP7 - MedtecHTA: Methods for Health Technology Assessment of Medical Devices: A European Perspective, Project Leader - European Commission , 2013
• MAPPING NCDs: Mapping Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Research Activities and their Impact. WP Coordinator - European Commission , 2013
• Teaching Excellence Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi , 2013