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Dulce  Alarcón-Yaquetto

Dulce Alarcón-Yaquetto

PhD student

Research interests

  • Mental Health
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology

Biography

Dulce is currently a PhD student, working under Dr. James Shearer and Prof. Robert Stewart. Her research focuses on examining the impact of social inequalities on the costs of treating type 2 diabetes and severe mental illness. Dulce is the recipient of the International Doctoral Award from the ESRC London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS-DTP).

Prior to joining King's, she was a research associate at the Knowledge and Evidence Unit, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Peru, where her research ranged from physiology to biomedical informatics with an emphasis on the health of high-altitude Andean populations. Dulce holds a Master’s degree in Biomedical Informatics in Global Health and a Bachelor's degree in Biology from UPCH.

A list of her publications can be found here:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1Byvk2DdbZTAr/bibliography/public/

Research

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King's Health Economics

King's Health Economics, led by Professor Sarah Byford (Director), and Dr Barbara Barrett (Deputy Director), consists of a team of health economists with expertise in designing and conducting high quality economic evaluations of healthcare programmes and policies that contribute to healthcare policy and practice in the UK and abroad. 

Research

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King's Health Economics

King's Health Economics, led by Professor Sarah Byford (Director), and Dr Barbara Barrett (Deputy Director), consists of a team of health economists with expertise in designing and conducting high quality economic evaluations of healthcare programmes and policies that contribute to healthcare policy and practice in the UK and abroad.