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Elisa Maria Maffioli

Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Elisa M. Maffioli is an Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her main research focuses on development economics and health economics, with a focus on global health topics such as HIV, malaria, nutrition, and the Ebola Virus Disease. She is currently working on research projects in Liberia, Kenya, Brazil, Myanmar, and India. Her work has been funded by the J-Pal Governance Initiative, the International Growth Center, and Duke University. Elisa completed a Ph.D. in Economics at Duke University, and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan. During her Ph.D. studies, she has been a Scholar at Duke Global Health Institute. She has been a consultant for UNICEF and Save the Children in Myanmar, and for the World Bank in Lesotho. She has also worked as a researcher at IGIER, Bocconi University.
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- Kirsty M Bourret, Marie Chantal Kankolongo, Nadia Lobo, Désiré Banga, Elisa Maria Maffioli, Marie Klingberg-Allvin. 2025. “With an unwanted pregnancy, we are looking for midwives in the neighbourhood to show us what to do.” Stakeholder perceptions of midwife-led woman-centred comprehensive abortion care in the province of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: a qualitative descriptive study. Midwifery 140:104238.
- Kevin Carney, Leah R. Rosenzweig, Wendy N. Wong, Florence Aketch, James Otieno, Elisa Maria Maffioli. 2025. Can SMS Interventions Increase Vaccination? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya. Journal of Development Economics
- Elisa Maria Maffioli, Chimezie Anyakora. 2025. A comparative study between Near-Infrared (NIR) spectrometer and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) on the sensitivity and specificity. PLOS ONE 20(3):e0319523.
- Elisa Maria Maffioli, Daisey Yu. 2024. To what extent do we learn from past epidemics: a mobile phone survey of selected villages in Liberia. Journal of Global Health Reports 7:e2023079.
- Elisa Maria Maffioli, Tint Zaw, Nicholus, Field, Erica. 2024. A Comparison Between Different Models of Delivering Maternal Cash Transfers in Myanmar. Health Policy and Planning 39(7):674-682.
- Ifeoma Idigbe, Michelle Cherian, Abideen O Salako, Babatunde Adewale, Babatunde L Salako, Elisa Maria Maffioli. 2024. Safe water treatment practices: A qualitative study on point-of-use chlorination in Nigeria. Journal of Global Health 14:04178.
- Lee, HaEun, Fiseha, Neyat, Bateisibwa, Jordan, Moyer, Cheryl A., Greenberg, Joshua, Elisa Maria Maffioli. 2024. Community perceptions of health accountability meetings with local politicians to improve healthcare quality: a qualitative study in Western Uganda. BMC Public Health 24(1):1-10.
- Cristina Mattison, Elena Ateva, Luc De Bernis, Lorena Binfa, Jama Ali Egal, Karyn Kaufman, Marie Klingberg-Allvin, Elisa Maria Maffioli, Mary Renfrew, Pragati Sharma. 2023. Whose voice counts? Achieving better outcomes in global sexual and reproductive health and rights research. BMJ Global Health 8(10):e012680.
- Maffioli,Elisa Maria, O'Meara, Wendy Prudhomme, Menya, Diana , Laktabai, Jeremiah , Platt, Alyssa , Saran, Indrani , Kipkoech, Joseph , Mohanan, Manoj , Turner, Elizabeth L. 2018. Improving rational use of ACTs through diagnosis-dependent subsidies: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in western Kenya. PLOS Medicine 15(7):e1002607.
- Maffioli,Elisa Maria, Mohanan, Manoj . 2018. Touching beliefs: Using touchscreen technology to elicit subjective expectations in survey research. PLOS ONE 13(11):e0207484.