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DPhil Student Giuliana Daga

DPhil Student Giuliana Daga

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giuliana.daga@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Giuliana Daga

DPhil Student

RESEARCH GROUPS

  • Health Systems Collaborative, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
  • Health Economics and Policy Evaluation Group, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford

 

EDUCATION

  • Master of International Development Policy, Georgetown University (2021).
  • Masters in Applied Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2019).
  • Licentiate in Political Science and Government, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2017).

 

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  • Independent Consultant, Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice, World Bank (2025). Provided technical support to the Government of El Salvador in strengthening its early childhood development (ECD) monitoring system under the Crecer Juntos policy.
  • Economics Consultant, Social Protection and Health Division, Inter-American Development Bank (2021–2024). Supported the management and provided technical support to multiple research and operational projects, including the design of an experimental impact evaluation.
  • Research Assistant, Georgetown Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (2019–2021). Helped manage and led data analysis for two impact evaluations related to employability and farmer’s microinsurance programs in Kenya.
  • Research Intern, International Rescue Committee (2020). Supported the impact evaluation and COVID-19 adaptation of the Building Incomes and Leveraging Livelihoods for Youth (BILLY) program.
  • Policy Advisor, Performance Management Unit, Buenos Aires City Government (2017-2019). Supported the monitoring and delivery of the government’s strategic priorities and coordinated inter-ministerial initiatives.

 

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

  • NDM Tropical Network Fund (TNF), Nuffield Department of Medicine
  • Fulbright Scholarship for Master’s (or PhD) studies in the United States
  • P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship for women outside the United States
  • Georgetown University merit-based scholarship for Master’s studies in Public Policy
  • Universidad Torcuato Di Tella merit-based scholarship for Master’s studies in Applied Economics

 

THESIS
Exploring the economic consequences of climate inaction on health systems in Africa by reviewing evidence on disease-related economic burdens and the costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation strategies, and by generating new empirical estimates of the short- and long-term health-care costs attributable to early-life and childhood exposure to extreme heat, rainfall variability, and flooding.

Team: Graduate Students

Address:
The Peter Medawar Building
Nuffield Dept of Medicine
University of Oxford,
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3SY