Aleksandra Torbica

Aleksandra Torbica is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Università Bocconi.

Her collaboration with SDA Bocconi began in 2002. She was first the Coordinator and then Director of the Master in International Health Care Management, Economics and Policy from 2012 to 2015 (MIHMEP). Throughout the years, she has led numerous research projects funded by the public and private institutions, namely at international level (European Commission and international donor agencies). From 2017 to 2022, she was the Director of the Center for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS) within the Government, Health & Non Profit Division of SDA Bocconi. 

She holds several important positions in her scientific community: she is the Past-President of the Italian Health Economics Association (AIES) and the President-Elect of the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA). In the period 2021-2022, she served as the Special Advisor to the President of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development established by the World Health Organization.

At the core of Prof. Torbica's pursuits lies the intricate interplay between global health policy, health economics, and healthcare management. Her research interests are driven by ambition to disentangle complexities of decision making in healthcare field, at different levels. Her research is intrinsically interdisciplinary and spans across different topics in health economics, health policy, global health, healthcare financing systems, health technology assessment, governance of healthcare systems.  

She has co-authored over 100 papers in prestigious publication outlets, spanning health economics, health services research, and health policy.  She is a reviewer for many international academic journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Value in Health, Health Economics, Health Care Management Review, Pharmacoeconomics, Health Policy. She is an active member of the International Association of Health Economics (IHEA), the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (ISPOR) and a member of the Advisory Board of European Health Policy Group Since 2017 she has been the Co-Editor of Value in Health, one of the leading international journals in the field of health economics and health policy.

Aleksandra earned a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Belgrade (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Economics and Management of Public Administrations, from Università di Parma, Italy. She is married with two children.