Rosanna Tarricone

Rosanna Tarricone is Associate Dean of the SDA Bocconi School of Management - Government, Health and Non-Profit Division and Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Università Bocconi. She graduated in Business Administration at Università Bocconi and continued her studies at the University of London - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she obtained an MSc in Health Services Management and a PhD in Public Health and Policy.

Rosanna has over 100 publications in the areas of health policy, health management, economic evaluation and Health Technology Assessment (HTA).

In the last 10 years Rosanna has won over 10 competitive research grants from international organisations such as the European Union, the Swiss Bridge Award and InHealth (USA). She is leader of HEU-EFS, a large, multi-year, international, EU-funded research project that aims to develop a programme of Early Feasibility Studies for the European Union.

Rosanna is among the experts collaborating with DG Research and DG Health of the European Commission. She facilitated the exchange of experience and harmonisation of methods and procedures between the HTA Agencies of the EU Member States that joined EUnetHTA (European network of HTA Agencies). Since 2022 Rosanna has been a member of the AGENAS Working Group on Telemedicine, is a member of the European Task Force on Digital Technologies and collaborates with the National Observatory on Antibiotic Resistance. She contributed to designing and developing the National HTA Programme of Medical Devices for the Ministry of Health and since 2024, she is part of the Steering Committee of the National Plan for High Technology Agriculture (PNHTA).

Between 2005 and 2010 Rosanna held the position of Director of Economic Affairs of Medtech Europe (the European association of medical technology companies) and helped develop research programmes and generate solid evidence on medical devices through the launch of the European Health Technology Institute for Socio-Economic Research, a partnership between European universities (Università Bocconi, London School of Economics and Technische Universität Berlin) and policy makers (European Commission, WHO).

Rosanna is an active member of ISPOR - International Society of Health Economics and Outcome Research (HEOR) and served on the Board of Directors during 2016-2018. She led the Publications Management Advisory Board (MAB) in 2018-2019 and developed the scientific programme for the international conference in New Orleans in 2019 "Rapid. Disruptive. Innovative: A New Era in HEOR".