Dr David Lugo Palacios

Assistant Professor in Health Economics

United Kingdom

I am a health economist with expertise in policy evaluation and applied microeconometrics. I joined LSHTM as Assistant Professor in Health Economics in November 2020. I co-lead the Policy Evaluation theme within the Global Health ECOnomics (GHECO) centre at LSHTM. I am also an Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London and a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Health.

I hold a BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), an MSc in Health Economics and Policy from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a PhD in Health Economics from LSHTM.

Prior to re-joining the School, I was a Research Fellow in Health Economics at Imperial College London and a Research Associate in Health Economics at the University of Manchester. I also have professional experience in both the public and private sectors in Mexico, including at the Ministry of Finance of the Mexico City Government, the Ministry of Social Development and a consultancy firm specialising in public finance.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy

Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Global Health Economics Centre

Teaching

I am currently a seminar leader on the MSc modules Health Services and Economic Analysis for Health Policy at LSHTM. At Imperial College, I was co-lead of the MSc module on Financing Health Care and co-designed the Policy Evaluation theme of the online Health Economics module of the Global Master of Public Health. I also have lectured on Health Financing at the London School of Economics.

Research

My main research interests are policy evaluation, causal inference, health microeconometrics, performance measurement, health care financing and quality of health care. I am co-Principal Investigator of the SORT project, an NIHR funded study that will provide evidence on inequalities, comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments for three major types of cancer. I am also working on the PERMIT project (identification of person-level treatment effects in diabetes care) and on the evaluation of the implementation of the Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision Green Paper.

Research Area

Health economics

Health services research

Electronic health records

Health care financing

Economics (social science)

Impact evaluation

Health care policy

Policy analysis

Disease and Health Conditions

Non-communicable diseases

Diabetes

Cancer

Country

United Kingdom

Mexico

Region

Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)

OECD members

Euro area

North America

Selected Publications

Political economy of health care insurance expansion in Mexico

Lugo-Palacios, DG; Villa, AS;

2023

Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems

Back to basics: A mediation analysis approach to addressing the fundamental questions of integrated care evaluations.

Lugo-Palacios, DG; Clarke, JM; Kristensen, SR;

2023

Health Economics

Local Instrumental Variable Methods to Address Confounding and Heterogeneity when Using Electronic Health Records: An Application to Emergency Surgery.

Moler-Zapata, S; GRIEVE, R; Lugo-Palacios, D; HUTCHINGS, A; Silverwood, R; Keele, L; Kircheis, T; CROMWELL, D; Smart, N; Hinchliffe, R; O'NEILL, S;

2022

Medical decision making

Effectiveness of emergency surgery for five common acute conditions: an instrumental variable analysis of a national routine database.

HUTCHINGS, A; O'NEILL, S; Lugo-Palacios, D; MOLER ZAPATA, S; Silverwood, R; CROMWELL, D; Keele, L; Bellingan, G; Moonesinghe, SR; Smart, N; Hinchliffe, R; GRIEVE, R;

2022

Anaesthesia

Framework for identification and measurement of spillover effects in policy implementation: intended non-intended targeted non-targeted spillovers (INTENTS).

Francetic, I; Meacock, R; Elliott, J; Kristensen, SR; Britteon, P; Lugo-Palacios, DG; Wilson, P; Sutton, M;

2022

Implementation science communications

Stroke impairment categories: A new way to classify the effects of stroke based on stroke-related impairments.

Gittins, M; Lugo-Palacios, D; Vail, A; Bowen, A; Paley, L; Bray, B; Tyson, S;

2020

Clinical Rehabilitation

Factors influencing the amount of therapy received during inpatient stroke care: an analysis of data from the UK Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme.

Gittins, M; Vail, A; Bowen, A; Lugo-Palacios, D; Paley, L; Bray, B; Gannon, B; Tyson, S;