Thomas Barnay

Thomas Barnay is Full Professor ("Classe exceptionnelle") at University of Paris-Est Créteil in France. Specializing in health economics, his research focuses on the links between health status (disability, mental health, cancer), occupational status (employment, unemployment, retirement), and working conditions (physical constraints and psychosocial risks), access to healthcare and healthcare expenditure, retirement economics, dependency, aging, and COVID-19. He is also the Founder and the Head of the Master 2 in Health Economics at the University of Paris Est Créteil. Additionnaly, he serves as the Vice-President of Research at CES (Collège des Economistes de la Santé), the French Health Economists Association.

During three years (2021-2024), he worked in the USA. In 2021-2022, he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University (Boston, MA, US), and was also a recipient of the Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice (The Commonwealth Fund) (2021-2022). He was appointed as a Visiting Professor at Northeastern University, Boston (2022-2024), where he taught health economics and public economics.

He is the current Head of the OMI PhD Program, which brings together more than 220 PhD students. He also served as the Director of ERUDITE (Research Team on the Use of Individual Data in connection with Economic Theory) from 2018 to 2021. He also co-founded the Master's in Management and Health at IAE Gustave Eiffel, Upec in 2009 and directed the first class of the Master 2 in Health Facility Management (alternating training). Finally, he directed the Bachelor's in Economics and Management at Upec from 2007 to 2009. Previously, between 2012 and 2015, he held a position as Scientific Advisor at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health at Drees (Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation, and Statistics), Sub-directorate of Health and Health Insurance Observation, Population Health Status Bureau. He was responsible for the scientific coordination and valorization of the Health and Occupational Pathways survey. Between 2006 and 2012, he also served as the Secretary-General of the Collège des Economistes de la Santé.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (in English): https://sites.google.com/site/thomasbarnay/publications/peer-reviewed-publications-in-english
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (in French): https://sites.google.com/site/thomasbarnay/publications/peer-reviewed-publications-in-french