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Dr Bernardo Meza-Torres

Research Member of Common Room

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Bernardo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group (CIHORG) at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on developing quality indicators by leveraging real-world evidence from large-scale routine databases derived from electronic health records. His postdoctoral work has been pivotal in examining the impact of organizational arrangements on the care of individuals with type-2 diabetes and chronic liver disease, utilizing advanced statistical methods such as multistate modelling and fit-for-purpose composite indicators.

Bernardo holds a medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He furthered his education with masters in Health Economics and Bioethics from the Universities of Heidelberg and KU Leuven. Bernardo was awarded a DPhil in Medicine and Biosciences by the University of Surrey in 2022. His professional background includes roles as a health-economics consultant in the Mexican healthcare industry. In the NGO sector, Bernardo implemented digital technologies for monitoring non-communicable diseases in Mexico, and collaborated with the UNICEF Innovation Fund for implementing innovative solutions for monitoring resource use in Latin America.

His research interests include the evaluation of healthcare delivery and outcomes; development and validation of quality indicators; implementation and evaluation of digital technologies for monitoring and managing non-communicable diseases; ethical considerations in the use of digital health technologies and real-world data; and health economics and outcome research.