Jessica Ochalek
Research Fellow

Profile

Biography

Jessica Ochalek is a Research Fellow in the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment (TEEHTA). She joined in 2014 after completing the MSc in Health Economics at the University of York. Her MSc dissertation focused on estimating the effect of HIV status and low CD4 count on individuals' labour supply using an instrumental variable approach and data from Uganda. 

She also holds an MPH from Boston University and a BA in Global Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and has experience working at OECD as well as the Center for Global Health and Development at Boston University. Her research interests are centred around the application of economic evaluation in low- and middle-income countries.

Research

Research group(s)

• Economic evaluation of health technologies