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Carmen Fierro
DPhil Student in Health Economics
Carmen is a Probationer Research Student pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Primary Health Care within the Health Economics and Policy Evaluation group, supervised by Dr Joseph Kwon, Dr Padraig Dixon, Associate Professor Raphael Wittenberg, and Associate Professor Apostolos Tsiachristas. Carmen is recipient of a Doctoral Studentship from the Dementia Research Programme - National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Through her DPhil, Carmen is focusing on the health economics of falls prevention for individuals with cognitive impairment and dementia.
Carmen became part of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in November 2022, when she joined as an NIHR pre-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Professor Stavros Petrou and Dr Catia Nicodemo. She holds a BA in International Relations (cum laude) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MSc in Health Economics and Decision Sciences from University College London