Alberto Ciancio

Dr. Alberto Ciancio is a Lecturer in Applied Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (2017). His research focuses on development economics, health economics, political economy, and behavioral economics with a regional emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Malawi. He has conducted extensive fieldwork there, including evaluating health interventions via randomized control trials.

Research Interests: Development economics, health economics, political economy, behavioral economics, Sub-Saharan Africa studies, public health policy.

Grants:

• 2021-2022: Co-PI, 'Diverse Global Communities and Local Resource Allocation' ($50,000)
• 2020-2022: Investigator, 'Leveraging Social Networks for Healthy Aging in Low-Income Contexts' (NIH R03 AG069817, $160,584)
• 2018: Co-PI, 'Social Networks, NCDs and Aging' (PARC Pilot Grant, $19,643)

Advising: Current supervisees include Joseph Ugbede Ejima (agricultural cooperatives), Abdisalam Mohamed (Somalia remittances/inequality), and Nuzhat Sharmeen (gender attitudes in labor markets).

Recent work emphasizes health interventions in resource-poor settings, pandemic responses, and structural determinants of health behaviors. His Malawi-based studies highlight community leadership roles in public health during crises.