Thomas Martinez

After studying Pharmacy and obtaining a Master's degree in Toxicology at Paris-Cité University, he obtained a Master's degree in Health Economics at Paris Est Creteil University (UPEC) and funding from LIVE to complete his research internship. 

His thesis focuses on psychological and health resilience in the face or wake of economic or health-related adversities.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378427421005403?via%3Dihub

Research project: 

Health resilience following economic and health crises: an international comparison.

“Recent economic, ecological and health crises have reiterated the public health relevance of studying health resilience, defined as the process1 in which an individual is engaged to achieve better-than-expected health outcomes in the face or wake of adversity2. Although there is a great deal of work on resilience within various disciplines, there is still relatively little work on health resilience following economic and health crises. This is unfortunate, since understanding why some groups of individuals experience better or worse health trajectories than others following such crises would allow public policies to prevent, or at least mitigate, the deleterious health effects of these crises. Breaking the boundary between economics and epidemiology, this PhD project proposes a unified approach to the issue of health resilience. Using international and national cohorts (USA, Europe, UK and France), this thesis aims to describe and to explain the health trajectories of the young and older adults following health and economic crises. To do so, it focuses on the predictive factors of these trajectories, the inequalities on these factors, and the behaviors of individuals following the 2009 economic crisis (for older adults) and the COVID-19 crisis (for younger adults) by considering country- specific effects (economic response, closure and containment and health systems).”