Biography
Dr. Igna Bonfrer is Associate Professor of Global Health Economics at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. Her research generates evidence on how health systems can improve population health. Working with colleagues in Burkina Faso, Burundi, India and Kenya she identifies effective financial and non-financial incentives to support high quality care. Her work has been published in among others The British Medical Journal, Health Affairs, Social Science & Medicine and PLOS Global Public Health. For an illustration of her team’s work with pregnant women in India, see: https://youtu.be/0bBNsm6t3Tc
Dr. Bonfrer plays an important role in Global Health Economics teaching. She jointly developed teaching on topics including “causal evaluation of health care financing reforms”, “decolonizing global health” and “making a career in global health” which have been very well received by students (average student evaluation 4.6 out of 5).
She is Director of the Rotterdam Global Health Initiative, the multi-disciplinary global health research and education network at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus Medical Center.
Dr. Bonfrer shares her expertise with the World Health Organization and several NGOs. She received awards and prizes including a Rubicon Fellowship from the Dutch Research Council, the Nautilus Award for outstanding contribution from the University of Oxford and the Prof. H.W. Lambers Prize from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Dr. Bonfrer did her post-doc with the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- bonfrer@eshpm.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Callum Brindley, Nilmini Wijemunige, Charlotte Dieteren, Judith Bom, Bruno Meessen & Igna Bonfrer (2024) - Health seeking behaviours and private sector delivery of care for non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review - Bmc Health Services Research, 24 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10464-0 - [link]
- C. M. Dieteren, I. Bonfrer, W. B.F. Brouwer & J. van Exel (2023) - Public preferences for policies promoting a healthy diet: a discrete choice experiment - European Journal of Health Economics, 24 (9), 1429-1440 - doi: 10.1007/s10198-022-01554-7 - [link]
- Callum Brindley, Nilmini Wijemunige, Charlotte Dieteren, Judith Bom, Maarten Engel, Bruno Meessen & Igna Bonfrer (2023) - Health seeking behaviours and private sector delivery of care for non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for a systematic review - BMJ open, 13 (8), e066213 - doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066213 - [link]
- Novat Pugo Sambodo, Igna Bonfrer, Robert Sparrow, Menno Pradhan & Eddy van Doorslaer (2023) - Effects of performance-based capitation payment on the use of public primary health care services in Indonesia - Social Science and Medicine, 327 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115921 - [link]
- Renee Scheepers, Jan-Willem Weenink, Martina Buljac & Igna Bonfrer (2023) - Het welzijn van zorgprofessionals onder druk: Het belang van structurele ondersteuning met een programma ‘Zorgen voor de Zorg’ - Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 167 - [link]
- Veerle van Engen, Igna Bonfrer, Kees Ahaus & Martina Buljac (2023) - Identifying consensus on activities that underpin value-based healthcare in outpatient specialty consultations, among clinicians - Patient Education and Counseling, 109 (107642), 1-16 - doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2023.107642 - [link]
- Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin & Kevin A. Schulman (2022) - Billing and insurance related administrative costs: A cross national analysis - Health Affairs, 41 (8), 1098-1106 - doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00241 - [link]
- I. Bonfrer (2022) - Dying to know: does performance-based financing reduce mortality? - Health Policy and Planning, 37 (3), 416-417 - doi: 10.1093/heapol/czab125 - [link]
- Veerle van Engen, Igna Bonfrer, Kees Ahaus & Martina Buljac (2022) - Value-Based Healthcare From the Perspective of the Healthcare Professional: A Systematic Literature Review - Frontiers in Public Health, 9 - doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.800702 - [link]
- Charlotte Dieteren, Subhanwita Sarkar, Sumiti Saharan & Igna Bonfrer (2022) - Effects of a smartphone application on maternal health knowledge and dietary diversity among pregnant women in india: A randomized single center pilot study - Journal of Global Health Reports, 6 - doi: 10.29392/001c.39604 - [link]
- Igna Bonfrer (2016) - Travel Fellowship Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Igna Bonfrer (2015) - Rubicon Fellowship
- Igna Bonfrer (2008) - Wellcome Trust Quota Award for Masters in History of Medicine
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GWAVV-23
Global Health Economics
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4582M
Health and Economic Development
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4584M
Master HEPL-HE 2023-2024
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GWMTTHEPL
Global Challenges in Health & Behaviour
- Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW307
Director Rotterdam Global Health Initiative
- Start date approval
- January 2021
