Ramses H. Abul Naga

Ramses H. Abul Naga is a reader in Economics between the Business School and the Health Economics Research Unit of the University of Aberdeen. Prior to taking up this position, Dr Abul Naga was a senior lecturer at the University of Bath, United Kingdom, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne's Institute of Health Economics and Management, directing the Health and Development Research Group. He has also worked as a consultant on projects for the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Division for Africa and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Dr Abul Naga's research interests include, the measurement of social welfare and inequality in relation to ordered response data as well as Anthropometric data; the development of inferential tools for indices of welfare and inequality, especially in the context of anthropometric data, and the utilisation of such methodologies to inform health policy in developing countries. He obtained both his Ph.D. and Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom. He has published extensively in peer reviewed journals including the Lancet, the Journal of Health Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters.