Mara Airoldi

biography

Mara is the Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She leads a multi-disciplinary team of research and policy engagement specialists, focusing on innovative public sector contracting and effective cross-sector partnerships to achieve better social outcomes and tackle grand challenges.

Mara has two decades’ experience in connecting academic insights to decision making for social impact. She has provided input for decisions on Outcome funds and Outcomes Contracts in the UK, the EU, foundations, and international development agencies working in LMICs. In her previous posts she has worked with health policy makers and healthcare providers in the UK, Italy, Ontario and the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria as well as policy makers at the Home Office, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Office of the Deputy Prime minister in the UK.

Mara is an experienced decision modeller with an interest in impact metrics and the use of data to inform better decisions. She is particularly passionate about the ways in which governments can work with the private and non-for-profit sector to accelerate progress towards shared goals.She loves making sense of data and currently works on nurturing the INDIGO data collaborative.

She is an economist (welfare economics and health economics) and a decision analyst by background with degrees from Bocconi University in Milan and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

You can see more about her work on the Blavatnik School of Government Faculty Spotlight.

Publications

Articles in refereed journals

M Airoldi, A Morton, JA Smith, G Bevan (2014) STAR--people-powered prioritization: a 21st-century solution to allocation headaches. Medical Decision Making 34(8):965-75.
M Airoldi (2013). Disinvestments in practice: overcoming resistance to change through a socio-technical approach with local stakeholders. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law. 38 (6), 1151-1173.
D Read, S Frederick, M Airoldi (2012) "Four days later in Cincinnati: Longitudinal tests of intertemporal preference reversals due to hyperbolic discounting", Acta Psychologica. 140(2):177-185.
H Dodhia, K Phillips, M-I Zannou, M Airoldi, G Bevan (2012) "Modelling the impact on avoidable cardiovascular disease burden and costs of interventions to lower SBP in the England population", Journal of Hypertension, 30(1): 217-226.
M Airoldi and A Morton (2009) "Adjusting life for health or disability: stylistic difference or substantial issue?" Health Economics, 18(11): 1237-1247.
A Morton, M Airoldi, L Phillips (2009) "Nuclear Risk Management on Stage: The UK's Committee on Radioactive Waste Management", Risk Analysis, 29(5): 764-779.
M Airoldi, G Bevan, A Morton, M Oliveira, J Smith (2008) "Requisite models for strategic commissioning: the example of type 1 diabetes", Health Care Management Science, 11: 89-110.

Book chapters

M Airoldi (2013) “Stabilire le priorità d’intervento in sanità: dalla teoria alla pratica. L’esperienza inglese del SyMPOSE in Nuti S et al. Un metodo per individuare le priorità in sanità: l’esperienza pilota sul percorso dello scompenso cardiaco, Il Mulino: Bologna
M Airoldi and A Morton (2011) “Portfolio Decision Analysis for Population Health”, in Salo, A. and Keisler, J. and Morton, Alec, (eds.) Portfolio decision analysis: improved methods for resource allocation. Springer, Berlin.
D Read, M Airoldi (2005) "Utility Theory" in BS Everitt and DC Howell (Eds) Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, vol. 4: 2098-2101.

Invited articles in practitioners’ journals

J Smith M Airoldi (2008) "Measure the mix of interventions", Health Service Journal, 28 August 2008, p19

Reports

British Thoracic Society and Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (2012). IMPRESS guide to the relative value of interventions for people with COPD. British Thoracic Society Reports, Vol 4(2).
S Leatherman, K Sutherland, M Airoldi (2008) "Bridging the quality gap", Health Foundation.
G Bevan, A Morton, M Airoldi, M Oliveira, J Smith (2007). "Estimating health and productivity gains in England from selected interventions", The Health Foundation.
L Phillips, M Egan, M Airoldi (2006). CoWRM MCDA Decision Conference 28-30 March 2006, Catalyze Ltd
Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings
M Airoldi (2007) "Gains in QALYs vs. DALYs averted. The troubling implications of using residual life expectancy", Health Economists’ Study Group – Summer 2007, Brunel University

Working papers

A Morton and M Airoldi (2010) Incorporating health inequalities considerations in PCT priority setting LSEOR working paper, LSE Department of Management. Invited paper for the Department of Health & LSE Health Inequalities Forum
M Airoldi, A Morton, J Smith and G Bevan (2010) Healthcare prioritization at the local level. A socio-technical approach. Priority Setting for Population Health WP series, LSE Department of Management.
M Oliveira, G Bevan, M Airoldi et al (2010) Estimating the impacts on health gains and costs from improving diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. Priority Setting for Population Health WP series, LSE Department of Management.
M Airoldi, G Bevan, A Morton et al (2010) Estimating the health gains and cost impact of selected interventions to reduce stroke mortality and morbidity in England. Priority Setting for Population Health WP series, LSE Department of Management.
A Morton, G Bevan, M Airoldi et al (2010) Estimating the health gains and cost impact of treatment for depression. Priority Setting for Population Health WP series, LSE Department of Management.
M Oliveira, G Bevan, M Airoldi et al (2010) Estimating health gains from improving prescribing statins to lower the burden of CHD. Priority Setting for Population Health WP series, LSE Department of Management.
M Airoldi, G Bevan and A Morton et al (2010) Estimating health and productivity gains from intensive glucose control in T1 diabetes in England. Priority Setting for Population Health WP series, LSE Department of Management.
A Morton, G Bevan, M Airoldi et al (2010) Assessing the productivity gains from suicide prevention. Priority Setting for Population Health WP series, LSE Department of Management.
M Airoldi, S Frederick and D Read (2008) Longitudinal Tests for Inconsistent Planning Due to Hyperbolic Discounting, WP37, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1287233