Carla Blázquez Fernández

Carla Blázquez Fernández, Ph.D. in Economics (2015). She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad de Cantabria (Spain). Her main lines of research are Public Economics and Health Economics, about which she has published many papers in national and international specialized journals, such as: The European Journal of Health Economics, PLoS ONE, Applied Research in Quality of Life, BMC Public Health, Social Indicators Research, Gaceta Sanitaria, Economic Modeling, Applied Economics or Applied Economics Letters. She has an h-index of 10 (Google Scholar) and she belongs to the two Health Economics research groups that exist in Cantabria, University of Cantabria and IDIVAL. Furthermore, she collaborates with the GEN-the Governance and Economics research Network (Universidad de Vigo, Spain) and she has carried out short-stays at the City Health Economics Center (CHEC), Department of Economics, City University of London (UK); and the Center for Studies and Research in Health at Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS UC, Portugal). She has been involved in several multidisciplinary teams for the development of different competitive research projects (including those funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 Framework, etc.). She has acted as reviewer for several high-impact journals and has presented many works as oral presentation in international and national conferences and seminars. Moreover, she has been part of several organizing committees of conferences and meetings related to Applied Economics, Public Economics and Health Economics.