Sotiris Vandoros

Sotiris Vandoros is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at King’s College London, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Harvard University. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Officer and a Research Fellow.

His fields of interest include health economics and behavioural science. In particular, his research focuses on the impact of economic conditions, shocks and uncertainty on health and health-related behaviours, and on regulation and competition in pharmaceutical markets. His research has been published in various journals, including Risk Analysis, Health Affairs, Experimental Economics, Health Economics, Social Science and Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health etc.

Sotiris has carried out research for national and international organisations and governments such as the WHO, the NHS, the European Commission and the European Parliament. He has taught on Master’s programmes at the LSE, Sorbonne-Cité and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Publications

• The (Agri-)Cultural origins of obesity 29 August 2019
• The relative risk of motor vehicle collision on cannabis celebration day in Great Britain 01 July 2019
• The Effect of the Brexit Referendum Result on Subjective Well-being 01 December 2018
• The association between economic uncertainty and suicide in the short-run 01 January 2019
• The EU referendum and mental health in the short term: a natural experiment using antidepressant prescriptions in England 01 January 2018
• The short-term impact of economic uncertainty on motor vehicle collisions 07 February 2018
• The impact of the Great Recession on health-related risk factors, behaviour and outcomes in England 01 January 2018
• Healthcare Reforms in Cyprus 2013-2017: Does the crisis mark the end of the healthcare sector as we know it? 11 November 2017
• Democracy and Health: Evidence from Within-Country Heterogeneity in the Congo 12 October 2017
• Better Health in Times of Hardship? 01 December 2016