Dr. Fabienne Pradella
Postdoctoral researcher
Fabienne did her PhD in Health Economics (Mainz University) after studying Food and Resource Economics (Bonn University). Her work is based on econometric methods, mostly using quasi-experiments. She is involved in projects evaluating associations between vaccinations and neurodegenerative diseases among the elderly. Moreover, her work focuses on the identification of causal associations between environmental conditions in early life, starting at its earliest stages in utero, and health and human capital outcomes over the entire life course.
Education
Postdoctoral researcher, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, since 2024
Research affiliate, Stanford Medicine / Primary Care and Population Health, since 2024
Visiting postdoc, Harvard School of Public Health / Department of Environmental Health, 2023 – 2024
Postdoctoral researcher, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz / Chair of Statistics & Econometrics, since 2022
Doctoral candidate / researcher, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz / Chair of Statistics & Econometrics, 2015 – 2022 (parental leave: 2016, 2018-2019)
M.Sc. Food and Resource Economics, Bonn University, 2010 – 2013
B.A. European Studies, Maastricht University, 2007 - 2010
Contributions
Projects & Grants
“How do prenatal and postnatal circumstances interact in shaping health? An interdisciplinary approach using quasi-experiments” German Research Foundation, since 2022
“Ramadan during pregnancy: effects on health and facility across the generations”, German Research Foundation, since 2022
Other scientific projects & initatives
Associations between vaccines and risk of neurodegenerative diseases among the elderly
Publications
Please refer to ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5242-6957