Elisa Sicuri, PhD, is assistant research professor at the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB) at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). During her graduate studies, she worked at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex as well as the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol on the economics of labour and health. She later worked at the University of Glasgow on a Medical Research Council project.

She joined CRESIB/ISGlobal in 2007 to work on the economics of malaria and of other infectious diseases. Her research currently focuses on the cost-effectiveness of preventive interventions of malaria in vulnerable groups of the population living in endemic areas, such as children and pregnant women. In parallel to cost-effectiveness studies, her research activity concentrates on the estimate of the economic burden of the disease and on the comparison of the cost-of-illness within as well as across countries. In order to contextualize economic evaluation studies, especially when based on clinical trials, the demand for treatment and prevention out of the context of trials is estimated.

She earned a Doctor in Philosophy in Economics at the University of Pavia in 2005.