ProfessorKatharina Hauck

Katharina Hauck is a Professor in Health Economics and Deputy Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (Jameel Institute), School of Public Health, Imperial College London. She is specialized in the economics of infectious diseases and the economic evaluation of complex public health interventions. Her research focuses on the economic impact of endemic and emerging infectious diseases, the economics of pandemic preparedness, cost-effectiveness analysis, and health system strengthening. 

Katharina leads the 'Jameel Institute-Kenneth C. Griffin Initiative for the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness', an international collaborative program of research that has the mission to determine the health and economic value of pandemic preparedness with integrated economic-epidemiological modelling. She is lead for pandemic preparedness at the Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling and Health Economics.

Katharina regularly advises on national and international health policy related to the economics of infectious diseases and the economics of pandemic preparedness, including the World Health Organization, GAVI, two G20 task forces, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the Global Fund, governments of low-and middle income countries, and the UK Cabinet Office. She is an associate editor for the journal 'Health Economics'.

Katharina has lead several collaborative studies in low-and middle-income countries, and she was co-convener of the economic analysis for the Infected Blood Inquiry in the United Kingdom.

Katharina holds a PhD in Economics from the University of York (2005). Her previous appointments were at the Business School of Imperial College London (2010-2015), the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University (Australia, 2005-2010), the Centre for Health Economics, University of York (UK, 1999-2005), and the World Health Organization in Geneva (Switzerland, 1998-1999).