Rocco Friebel MSc, PhD

Dr Rocco Friebel is an Associate Professor of Health Policy, Director of the Global Surgery Policy Unit (a partnership between the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Royal College of Surgeons of England), and Deputy Director of LSE Health. He specializes in the economics of health system delivery and healthcare regulation aimed at improving quality of care. His research comprises the fields of regulation, health system strengthening, patient safety, econometric evaluation, and priority setting, with publications in world-leading journals such as Health Affairs, the Lancet, and Social Science and Medicine.

Dr Friebel leads and teaches the following courses: Health Care Regulation (HP433 & HP4F5E), Quality and Outcomes in Clinical Sciences (HP4C2E), Measuring Health System Performance (HP402), Methods and Data for Health Systems Performance Assessment (HP434), Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (HP4G4E). He is the Programme Director of the Executive MSc Healthcare Decision-Making in collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Dr Friebel is Editor in Chief of Health Economics, Policy and Law (Cambridge University Press), Steering Committee Member of the European Health Policy Group, and Founder and Host of LSE’s HealthTalks podcast series. He regularly advises international organizations (WHO, OECD) and national governments, including on the measurement of integrated emergency, critical, and operative care (World Health Assembly resolution 76.2). Dr Friebel received his PhD from Imperial College London. Before joining the Department of Health Policy, he worked as a Senior Analyst for the Health Foundation.