Francesco Petracca

Francesco Petracca is a Lecturer of the Government, Health & Not for Profit Knowledge Group at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is a Research Fellow at CERGAS (Centre for research on health and social care management) Bocconi and an Academic Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Science of Università Bocconi. At SDA Bocconi he was Teaching Assistant of the Master in Healthcare Management (MiMS) between 2016 and 2020.

His research activities focus on digital technologies in the health care sector, with a specific focus on mobile health and mHealth applications, their evaluation methodologies and their impact on chronic disease management. Other areas of interest include: institutional and organizational arrangements in the Italian National Health Service; community and primary care; disease management models. He previously participated in the EU-funded project COMED EU-H2020. He is the author of several articles on his subjects of interest. His main works have been published in NPJ Digital Medicine, Health Economics, BMJ Open, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and JMIR mHealth uHealth.

He earned an MSc in Economics and Management of Public Administration and International Institutions from Università Bocconi.