L aure de Preux
Associate Professor at Imperial College London
Health and Environmental Economist
PhD in Economics, University of York
I am a health and environmental economist in the Economics and Public Policy department at Imperial College Business School. My work spans three areas: how climate policies such as carbon pricing affect firms, emissions and health; how pollution and extreme temperatures shape health and health care use, and whether they hit deprived communities hardest; and the economic evaluation of health care, including bringing environmental sustainability into cost-effectiveness analysis. Throughout, I use economics to identify socioeconomic inequalities and promote environmental justice.
I am committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. I co-chair the People and Culture (EDI) committee at Imperial Business School, previously served on Imperial’s Athena SWAN team, and am a trustee of Beyond The Bias, which works to improve social mobility.
Teaching is one of the most rewarding parts of my work. I lead modules in health economics, healthcare analytics, and health and the environment across undergraduate, MSc and executive education programmes at Imperial Business School, and supervise PhD students. My teaching has received Imperial Business School Teaching Excellence Awards for undergraduate teaching and for PhD supervision.
Affiliations and roles
- Research Fellow, Climate Change and Environment programme, CEPR
- Member, WHO Technical Advisory Group on Economics for Environment, Climate Change and Health
- Editorial Board, BMJ Public Health
- Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation, Imperial College London
- Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London
- HEAL group, University of Mannheim
Research interests
My research looks at:
- Climate policy and industrial decarbonisation: carbon pricing, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, carbon leakage and management practices
- Environmental determinants of health: air pollution, extreme temperatures and their effects on hospital admissions, prescribing and sleep
- Health inequalities: how environmental exposure and deprivation widen socioeconomic gaps in health and in health care performance
- Economic evaluation in health care: cost-effectiveness of treatments and the carbon footprint of care
- Valuing health for policy: mortality risk valuation and benefit–cost analysis of climate and health actions
- Health economics and behaviour: insurance, prevention and the health co-benefits of environmental policies
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Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ
L.dePreux@imperial.ac.uk