Awad Mataria, PhD

Pharmacist - Health Economist
Health Systems Management Unit, Coordinator
Institute of Community and Public Health
Birzeit University
Palestine
Email: awad@birzeit.edu


Educational Background:
PhD, Health Economics (with Distinction), University of the Mediterranean (Aix-Marseille II), Marseille, France.
MS, Health Economics [DEA: Méthodes d'Analyses des Systèmes de Santé], University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France.
BS, Pharmacy (Honor), Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Irbid, Jordan.


Research Interests:
Measuring the benefits of health care mainly using stated preferences techniques; economic evaluation of health care interventions: cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis and cost-benefit analysis; using economics in health care priority setting; financing and organization of health care systems; quality of life; equity analysis; cost analysis of health care programs.


Selected Recent Publications:
Giacaman, R., Abu-Rmeileh, N., Mataria, A., & Wick, L. (2008). Palestinian women's pregnancy intentions; analysis and critique of the DHS 2004. Health Policy, 85, 83-93.

Giacaman, R., Mataria, A., Nguyen-Gillham, V., Abu Safieh, R., & Stefanini, A. (2006). Quality of life in the Palestinian context: An inquiry in war-like conditions. Health Policy, 81(1), 68-84.

Mataria, A., Giacaman, R., Khatib, R., & Moatti, J. (2006). Impoverishment and patients' "willingness" and "ability" to pay to improve the quality of delivered care in Palestine: An assessment using the contingent valuation method. Health Policy, 75(3), 312-328.

Mataria, A., Donaldson, C., Luchini, S., & Moatti, J. (2004). A stated preference approach to assessing health care-quality improvements in Palestine: From theoretical validity to policy implications. Journal of Health Economics, 23(6), 1285-1311.