Dr Giulia Ferrari is a Visiting Fellow at LSE Health.
She is a quantitative social scientist with expertise in violence, health, wellbeing, and measurement, including in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
Her work explores wellbeing in disadvantaged populations, seeking to identify and measure wellbeing perceptions and determinants to generate evidence of the diversity of and commonalities between wellbeing concepts. Such evidence is designed to also enable inclusive policymaking.
She combines natural language programming with qualitative analysis of textual data for a more nuanced understanding of the data compared to using each approach alone.
Giulia also uses longitudinal datasets to investigate associations between wellbeing, gender norms and socio-economic characteristics in disadvantaged populations. She measures the causal impact of behavioural interventions on wellbeing with data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
In addition, Giulia co-designs and quantifies the impact and value-for-money of behavioural change interventions to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG), including in fragile settings, using RCTs. She has introduced several methodological developments for impact and cost-effectiveness analysis, including the standardisation of cost-effectiveness methods and tools to facilitate cost data collection.
Giulia is a Guest Teacher in the Department of International Development for the Autumn Term 2024-25.
Giulia is an Affiliate at LSE Data Science Institute, a Visiting Scholar at the Eastern Africa Centre Nottingham Trent University, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Bristol Medical School University of Bristol.
She has worked as a consultant in the international and sustainable development fields for various organisations, including the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), ODI Global (previously the Overseas Development Institute), the European Commission, the American Institutes for Research, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United Nations, and the World Bank.
A full list of Giulia’s publications can be found here.