ECHIL. EConomics, Health, Inequalities Louvain

FNRS Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Researcher at IRSS and IRES/LIDAM
josephine.aikpitanyi@uclouvain.be  

Research areas: Maternal and child health; determinants of healthcare utilization; economic evaluation of healthcare interventions; global health

Josephine’s postdoctoral research uses a discrete choice experiment to advance the understanding of how women’s non-cognitive traits influence their healthcare choices, particularly their preferences for childbirth places. This is a continuation of her PhD research, which aimed to contribute to behavioural economics literature by examining the link between non-cognitive traits and utilization of maternal and child healthcare services in Nigeria. 

Personal webpage: Josephine Aikpitanyi 

PhD student
FSR doctoral fellowship
Researcher at IRSS
alexia.bigorne@uclouvain.be
 

Research areas: Health inequalities, inequality of opportunity, sex, gender.
 

Alexia’s research builds upon the equality of opportunity concept and proposes to consider empirically whether and how sex matters for inequality of opportunity in health. The aim of her PhD research is to identify whether reducing inequalities of opportunity in general health and premature mortality requires different public policies for men and for women. She studies how sex can play a cumulative role in favour of women or men’s health status over time, mapping social and family background of origin and lifestyles.
 

Her first paper highlights significant and stronger inequality of opportunity in general health among women than among men. 

Scientific collaborator at IRSS 

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Verona : research scholarship funded by the Horizon Europe project FLASH.
 

luigi.boggian@uclouvain.be 

Research areas: Health inequalities, healthcare inequalities, migration, gender.

He obtained a PhD in Economics at the IRSS and at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (IRES) of the UCLouvain. 

Under the supervision of my PhD supervisor Prof. Sandy Tubeuf (UCLouvain), he has worked on healthcare inequalities between immigrants and natives in Europe, with a specific focus on forgone care, cardiovascular risk factors and mental health. In 2022, he visited the Centre de Recerca en Economia i Salut (CRES) at Pompeu Fabra University for four-months under the supervision of Prof. Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford, Brunel University of London).

Personal page

PhD student
Research and teaching assistant
Researcher at IRSS
charlotte.desterbecq@uclouvain.be

Research areas : Economic evaluation, health and environment, global health.

PhD Candidate

ARES Development cooperation fellowship
Researcher at IRSS and IRES
cossi.agbeto@uclouvain.be

Research areas : Inequalities in healthcare access, Health insurances, Evaluation of public policies

PhD student (FSR funded)
Researcher at IRSS

lisa.albert@uclouvain.be 
 

Research areas : Health state utility values, discrete choice experiment, mapping, cerebral palsy, children, proxy-respondent bias, carers QALY

PhD student and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Economics, Social and Political Sciences and Communication (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)

Researcher at IRIS-L 
emilia.luyten@uclouvain.be 

 

Research areas: Health financing, income inequalities, equity, health policies

Emilia Luyten’s research focuses on health economics, with a particular interest in the equity of healthcare financing and the impact of health policies on income inequality.

Her PhD explores how healthcare financing systems influence income redistribution and equitable access to care. She also investigates the economic consequences of disability within families, specifically how having a child with a disability affects parents’ income trajectories.