Aleksandra Torbica
Associate Professor
Biography
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.
Recent Publications
- 2025
A blended learning approach for capacity strengthening to improve the quality of integrated HIV, TB, and malaria services during antenatal and postnatal care in LMICs: a feasibility study
LADUR, A. N., U. EGERE, M. RAVIT, F. MGAWADERE, C. MURRAY, S. A. WHITE, M. HAUWA, R. MUTAI, L. NYAGA, S. DUNCAN, I. BASHIR, O. O. AYINDE, R. BAKAR, L. KATALAMBULA, C. B. FEDERICI, A. TORBICA, N. FURTADO, E. A. KUMAH, C. AMEH, "A blended learning approach for capacity strengthening to improve the quality of integrated HIV, TB, and malaria services during antenatal and postnatal care in LMICs: a feasibility study", BMC Medical Education, 2025, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 35 - 2025
Are we ready for the next pandemic? Public preferences and trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions across 21 countries
ANTONINI, M., M. G. GENIE, K. ATTWELL, A. E. ATTEMA, J. K. WARD, A. MELEGARO, A. TORBICA, B. KELLY, C. BERARDI, A. R. SEQUEIRA, N. MCGREGOR, A. KELLNER, S. BRAMMLI-GREENBERG, M. HINWOOD, L. MURAUSKIENĖ, D. BEHMANE, Z. J. BALOGH, T. P. HAGEN, F. PAOLUCCI, "Are we ready for the next pandemic? Public preferences and trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions across 21 countries", Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 366, pp. 117687 - 2025
Conceptualisation and measurement of healthy ageing: Insights from a systematic literature review
PIRIU, A. A., M. V. BUFALI, G. CAPPELLARO, A. COMPAGNI, A. TORBICA, "Conceptualisation and measurement of healthy ageing: Insights from a systematic literature review", Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 374, pp. 117933 - 2025
The Costs of Digital Health Interventions to Improve Immunization Data in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Multicountry Mixed Methods Study
FEDERICI, C. B., M. VERYKIOU, M. CAVAZZA, W. OLOMI, P. IRAKIZA, K. KAYUMBA, E. RODRIGUEZ, L. E. CASTILLO MENDOZA, S. MALVOLTI, C. HUGO, N. E. NTINGINYA, S. CAMARA, I. SABI, N. SANO, H. SIBOMANA, J. CONDO, A. TORBICA, C. JOMMI, C. MANTEL, V. MANGIATERRA, "The Costs of Digital Health Interventions to Improve Immunization Data in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Multicountry Mixed Methods Study", Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2025, vol. 27, pp. e62746-e62746 - 2025
Time preferences and COVID-19 vaccination uptake
ATTEMA, A. E., M. ANTONINI, M. GENIE, A. TORBICA, F. PAOLUCCI, "Time preferences and COVID-19 vaccination uptake", The European Journal of Health Economics, 2025 - 2025
Impact of electronic immunization registries and electronic logistics management information systems in four low-and middle-income countries: Guinea, Honduras, Rwanda, and Tanzania
MANTEL, C., C. HUGO, C. B. FEDERICI, N. SANO, S. CAMARA, E. RODRIGUEZ, L. E. CASTILLO MENDOZA, J. CONDO, P. IRAKIZA, I. SABI, E. NYANDA, W. OLOMI, M. CAVAZZA, V. MANGIATERRA, M. VERYKIOU, E. FERENCHICK, A. TORBICA, T. CHERIAN, S. MALVOLTI, "Impact of electronic immunization registries and electronic logistics management information systems in four low-and middle-income countries: Guinea, Honduras, Rwanda, and Tanzania", Vaccine, 2025, vol. 54, pp. 127066 - 2025
Vaccinations in low-income countries: Why technology is not enough - Vaccinazioni nei paesi a basso reddito: perché l’elettronica non basta
FEDERICI, C. B., M. CAVAZZA, A. TORBICA, V. MANGIATERRA, "Vaccinations in low-income countries: Why technology is not enough - Vaccinazioni nei paesi a basso reddito: perché l’elettronica non basta", SDA Bocconi Insight, 20 October 2025 - 2025
Advancing the understanding, measurement and monitoring of healthy ageing: A systematically derived framework and dataset mapping associated constructs, measures and measurement approaches
PIRIU, A. A., M. V. BUFALI, G. CAPPELLARO, A. COMPAGNI, A. TORBICA, "Advancing the understanding, measurement and monitoring of healthy ageing: A systematically derived framework and dataset mapping associated constructs, measures and measurement approaches", Data in Brief, 2025, vol. 62, pp. 111916 - 2024
Public preferences for vaccination campaigns in the COVID-19 endemic phase: insights from the VaxPref database
ANTONINI, M., M. G. GENIE, A. E. ATTEMA, K. ATTWELL, Z. J. BALOGH, D. BEHMANE, C. BERARDI, S. BRAMMLI-GREENBERG, A. GREENLAND, T. P. HAGEN, M. HINWOOD, C. JAMES, A. KELLNER, B. KELLY, L. MURAUSKIENĖ, N. MCGREGOR, A. MELEGARO, N. MOY, A. R. SEQUEIRA, R. SINGH, A. TORBICA, J. K. WARD, D. YANG, F. PAOLUCCI, "Public preferences for vaccination campaigns in the COVID-19 endemic phase: insights from the VaxPref database", Health Policy and Technology, 2024, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 100849 - 2024
Braving the waves: exploring capability well-being patterns in seven European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
HIMMLER, S., J. VAN EXEL, W. BROUWER, S. NEUMANN-BÖHME, I. SABAT, J. SCHREYÖGG, T. STARGARDT, P. P. BARROS, A. TORBICA, "Braving the waves: exploring capability well-being patterns in seven European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic", The European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 563-578
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Grants & Honors
Teaching Excellence Award (for innovation in teaching), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2020
Modelling effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and promoting health care value in the real world. The Motive project - Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN), Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, 2019
COMED (Pushing the boundaries of Cost and Outcome Analysis of Medical Technologies), European Commission, 2018
IQCE (Improving Quality of Care in Europe), European Commission, 2017
