Natalia Oprea

Natalia Oprea is a Fellow of Public Management in the Government, Health & Nor for Profit Knowledge Group at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Since December 2018, Natalia has been collaborating with the Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management. She was a Teaching Assistant of the course "Institutional Scenarios of Cyber Risk" within the MSc in Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance at Bocconi University and of the course "Quantitative Methods" for undergraduate degree in Political Science at University of Siena. 

At SDA Bocconi Natalia has contributed to research projects, including European Horizon CoVAL project on understanding value creation in public services; ShareView on patient engagement and shared decision-making in breast cancer care; and research activities on adopting new technologies in public services. 
Her research activities focus on the co-creation of public services, including patient engagement in health care, governance in healthcare, and the role of digital technologies in the provision of public services. She is a co-author of various research reports, research articles and conference proceedings. She contributes to the annual report on the Italian Health System. She was awarded with research scholarships by the European Commssion and the Italian Ministry of Education. 

Natalia earned a MA in Public Policies and Territorial Development from Deusto University, Spain and a PhD in Comparative and European Politics from University of Siena, Italy.