He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His main research interests lie in the areas of equity in health and health care, economic evaluation of healthcare programs, financing health care providers, and applied econometrics. He has lectured health economics, applied health economics, economic evaluation in health, and economic analysis of health systems. He is currently affiliated as a researcher with the Institut de Recherche en Santé et Société (Brussels), and the Centro de Malária e Doenças Tropicais (Lisbon). His work has been published in journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Health Policy, and Medical Care.