CHE Welcomes Visiting Fellows
Posted on Monday 15 June 2026
The CHE Research Fellowship scheme was established in 2006 in memory of Professor Alan Williams, reflecting his commitment to bringing people together to share ideas, collaborate, and advance health economics research.
Visiting Research Fellows 2025/2026
Dr Rocío García Díaz (Tecnológico de Monterrey) joins CHE as a Visiting Research Fellow in Health Policy. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of York and is associate professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. From 2004 to 2006, she worked in the Department of Economics at York University.
Her research focuses on health economics and health equity, with particular emphasis on financial protection, out-of-pocket health expenditure, healthcare utilization, and inequalities in access to care. She has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization and the World Bank, and has published in journals including BMC Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Global Health. Her recent work examines maternal health, healthcare fragmentation, food environments, diabetes, and obesity in Mexico and other low- and middle-income countries. Current projects focus on the effects of food environments on diabetes and obesity outcomes, healthcare utilization patterns, and equitable approaches to global health financing.
Dr Boshen Jiao (University of Southern California) is the second Visiting Research Fellow joining CHE this year. He is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics and a Scholar at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. His research develops and applies advanced methods in economic evaluation, health outcomes research, and value of information analysis to address policy-relevant questions in healthcare. More recently, his work has also focused on incentives for medical innovation. His research has informed value assessment guidelines developed by health technology assessment bodies and academic societies.
Dr Jiao has received multiple academic honours, including three awards from ISPOR: the Bernie J. O’Brien New Investigator Award (2026), the HEOR Excellence in Methodology Award (2025), and the Best General Podium Presentation Award (2023). He has also received the Lee B. Lusted Prize from SMDM (2022). His research has been published in numerous leading journals in health economics, health policy, and clinical medicine, and has also received media coverage. He is a member of the Health Economics Council of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review and serves on the editorial board of PharmacoEconomics.
Dr Jiao earned his PhD in Health Economics and Outcomes Research from the University of Washington, his MPH from the EHESP French School of Public Health, and his BA in Economics from Fudan University. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University.
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