Experts

Marselia is a researcher at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre and an MSc student in Global Health Policy at LSE. Her current research interests are in the areas of global mental health, ageing, long-term care, and application of technology to bridge health inequalities. She is currently an editor on the student-run Journal of Health Policy and Economics. Marselia has worked in pharmaceutical market access and real-world research projects (qualitative and quantitative) in Asia Pacific.

Shivani Taneja is a Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham. She has previously worked as a Teaching Associate in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London, as a Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey and as a Research Associate in Environmental Economics at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex and her thesis focused on topics in labour economics.

Valerie Tarasuk’s primary research focus is household food insecurity. She has led several studies to elucidate the scope, nature, and health implications of this problem in Canada, assess the effectiveness of community responses, and determine the effects of public policies and programs on food insecurity rates. Since 2011, she has led PROOF, an interdisciplinary research designed to identify effective policy approaches and mobilise knowledge to reduce household food insecurity in Canada.

Vis Taraz is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Smith College. Her research sits at the intersection of development, environmental, and agricultural economics, with a primary regional focus on India. and a secondary focus on Africa. Areas of expertise include the impact of climate change on agriculture in low- and middle-income countries; the impact of climate change on migration and labor markets; and the role of social safety net programs in cushioning households from climate change.

Hannah is a research officer at the London School of Economics, currently working on tax policy, inequality and measurement issues. Prior to joining LSE, she completed an MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford.

Iva Tasseva is a researcher in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on income inequality and poverty and the redistributive effect of tax-benefit policies within specific countries and in a cross-country comparative perspective. She also has extensive experience of tax-benefit microsimulation models for distributional analysis.