Oriana Ciani

Associate Professor of Practice in Public Management and Policy, Coordinator of HI-PRIX
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Oriana Ciani
Oriana Ciani's personal page at SDA Bocconi

Oriana research interests focus on the use of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in healthcare decision-making processes, methodological aspects of health technology assessments, particularly in the field of medical devices and digital technologies, evidence synthesis to inform policy choices. Oriana earned her PhD from the University of Exeter Medical School (UK) with a thesis on the validation of surrogate outcomes, which remains one of her main areas of interest.

She has participated in numerous national and international research projects, involving various partners, such as MedTecHTA (FP7 no. 305694), Mapping NCD (FP7 no. 602536), and COMED (H2020 no.779306). Since 2023, she has been the coordinator of the three-year HORIZON Europe project HI-PRIX (no. 101095593), focusing on innovative pricing and payment schemes for healthcare technologies.