Bio

Vasco Pontinha, Ph.D., joined VCU as an assistant professor of pharmacoeconomics in 2023. He earned his Ph.D. from VCU in pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes, focusing on the development of group-based trajectory models to identify patterns of long-term medication adherence and implementation of machine learning algorithms to examine value-based health care policy. Prior to completing his Ph.D., he received his pharmacy degree from the University of Lisbon and a Master’s in Management from the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics. 

Pontinha brings his economic expertise to CPPI by helping demonstrate the economic value that pharmacists generate in their many interventions.

Research Interests

• Economic evaluation of non-pharmaceutical interventions and how those can inform health care benefit design and policy
• Pharmaceutical services reimbursement design