Associate Professor Mara Violato
Mara Violato
BSc, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
- Health Economics Research Centre
- MSc in Global Health Science Module Lead for Health Economics
Mara Violato joined Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) in September 2006.
Her research interests include (child) health inequalities, health econometrics, economic evaluations in various disease areas, economic aspects of perinatal and paediatric care, health care utilisation and costs, ethnicity and health, (child) mental health, respiratory health, coeliac disease and gastrointestinal infections.
Mara is currently working on a number of NIHR and MRC funded economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials in the area of treatments of child anxiety (OVERCOMING, MACH, T-CAP), and ophthalmology (ECHoES).
She is the PI of a Coeliac UK-funded projected aimed to further explore what it is like to live with coeliac disease in the United Kingdom, both before and after the condition has been diagnosed. She also leads the health economics component of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections, a 5-year interdisciplinary research programme in collaboration with the Universities of Liverpool and East Anglia and Public Health England to generate new strategies for control of diarrheal diseases.
Prior to this appointment, Mara worked as research assistant and teaching fellow in economics at the University of Dundee.
Mara graduated in Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) in 1998. She obtained her MSc in Economics from the University of Glasgow in 2000, her PhD in Economics from the University of Dundee in 2006, and her Doctorate in Economics from the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy) in 2007.
Recent publications
-
Development of a brief assessment tool to identify children with probable anxiety disorders
Journal article
Reardon T. et al, (2024), JCPP Advances
-
Childhood Transitions Between Weight Status Categories: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
Journal article
Onyimadu O. et al, (2024), Pharmacoeconomics
-
Digitally augmented, parent-led CBT versus treatment as usual for child anxiety problems in child mental health services in England and Northern Ireland: a pragmatic, non-inferiority, clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Creswell C. et al, (2024), Lancet Psychiatry
-
The financial impact on people with coeliac disease of withdrawing gluten-free food from prescriptions in England: findings from a cross-sectional survey.
Journal article
Sugavanam T. et al, (2024), BMC Health Serv Res, 24
-
Statistical analysis plan for a cluster randomised controlled trial to compare screening, feedback and intervention for child anxiety problems to usual school practice: identifying Child Anxiety Through Schools-identification to intervention (iCATS-i2i).
Journal article
Ball S. et al, (2024), Trials, 25