Professor Joan Costa-Font (he/him) works at the LSE as a Professor of Health Economics, and he is a faculty associate of LSE Health where he leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL), and the International Inequalities Institute, where he co-leads the perceptions of inequality program. He is affiliated with the two major global economics research networks, namely IZA, and CESifo. He specialises in the economics of healthy ageing and the behavioural economics and behavioural political economy of health care and health disadvantage.

Joan has been a recipient of a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2001), a Harkness Fellowship (2012) based at Harvard University and a Policy Evaluation Fellowship based at Sciences Po (2022). He has held research and teaching positions at Oxford University, Boston College, UCL, Paris Dauphine, Universita Cattolica, Sciences Po and the University of California San Francisco. In addition to working as a consultant for several national and international organizations, including the House of Lords, the NIHR, Public Health England, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Health Organization, he has led multiple research projects as the primary investigator. Joan serves on the Scientific Committee of the Brocher Foundation (Geneva), the Fondazione Cariplo (Milan), and the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Economics for Environment, Climate Change, and Health (WHO TAG-EconECH).

Expertise: behavioural incentives; ageing, long term care, health disadvantage; healthy lifestyles; smoking, obesity, sleep, food , exercise; gender, family and health

LSE Consulting projects:

• The Vitality Health Index: Quantifying habits and their impact on health
  March 2024
  
  Client: Vitality Group International, Inc.
• Global Report on Long-Term Care Financing
  October 2022
  
  Authors: Joan Costa-Font and Nilesh Raut
  Client: World Health Organization (WHO)
  
  

• Children's Wellbeing and Development Outcomes for Ages 5, 7 and 11, and their Predictors
  March 2016 - April 2018
  
  Authors: Mireia Borrell-Porta, Kerris Cooper,  Joan Costa-Font, Chiara Orsini, Berkay Ozcan & Lucinda Platt
  Client: Public Health England 

• Social Policy Reforms in the EU: A Cross-national Comparison
  October 2015
  
  Client: BertelsmannStiftung
  Authors: Jan Arpe, Simona Milio & Andrej Stuchlik (with contributions from: Will Bartlett, Anne Marie Brady, Anne Corbett, Joan Costa-Font, Bob Hancké, Lamia Irfan, Bregtje Kamphuis, Lisa McKenzie, Tanguy Séné & Pieter Tuytens) 

• A Common Disease with Uncommon Treatment: European Guideline Variations and access to innovative therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
  July 2012
  
  Client: Policy Analysis Centre
  End client: Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd
  Authors: Tony Hockley & Joan Costa-Font with a foreword by Alistair McGuire

• Measures to Promote the Situation of Roma EU Citizens in the European Union
  January 2011

  Client: European Parliament - DG for Internal Policies
  Authors: Will Bartlett, Roberta Benini & Claire Gordon (with assistance of: Laura Cashman, Sarah Cemlyn, Joan Costa-Font, Florin Moisa, Johan Gabrielsson, Gregor Grienig, Argyris Mamarelis, Georgios Niarchos, Ovidiu Voicu, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Christophe Robert, Andrew Ryder, Sorin Cace, Daniela Tarnovschi, Todor Todorov, Kyriaki Topidi, Peter Vermeersch, Erzsebet Vajodovich-Visy)

• Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Policy in Turkey
  September 2005
  
  Client: New Hope in Health Foundation (SUVAK)
  Authors: Panos Kanavos, İsmail Üstel & Joan Costa-Font

• The Economic Impact of Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade in European Union Member States: A Stakeholder Analysis
  January 2004
  
  Client: Johnson & Johnson
  Authors: Panos Kanavos, Joan Costa-i-Font, Sherry Merkur & Marin Gemmill