Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

Cristina is Technical Officer at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, based at LSEHealth.

Cristina works on a range of projects on health systems’ monitoring, international health care comparisons and performance assessment at European level. In particular, she works as editor and author of the Health Systems in Transition (HiT) reviews, State of Health in the EU Country Profiles, and Health Systems and Policy Monitor platform for a range of countries, including France, Portugal, Romania and Spain. 

Cristina’s research interests include: inequalities in health and lifestyle factors, equity in access to health and social care services, socioeconomic determinants of health and European health systems and policies. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on these topics. 

Before joining the European Observatory in 2007, Cristina worked as a Research Fellow in the EU-funded project “ECuity Project”, led by Professor Andrew Jones (University of York) and Professor Eddy van Doorslaer (Erasmus University Rotterdam) at the University of York. Cristina holds a PhD in Economics (2007) and a master’s degree in Health Economics (2003) from the University of York, United Kingdom, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (2002).

Recent publications

Mauer N, Hernandez-Quevedo C, Eriksen A, Scarpetti G, van Ginneken E, et al (2025), Health care coverage and access for displaced persons from Ukraine: Assessing the implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive across EU Member States. Health Policy, Volume 161, 105434, ISSN 0168-8510, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105434. 

Bernal-Delgado E, Angulo-Pueyo E, Ridao-López M, Urbanos Garrido RM, Oliva-Moreno J, García-Abiétar D, Hernandez-Quevedo C (2024), Spain: Health system review. Health Systems in Transition. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 26(3): i-187. (https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications/i/spain-health-system-review-2024)

Tille F, Van Ginneken E, Winkelmann J, Hernandez-Quevedo C, Falkenbach M, Sagan A, Karanikolos M, Cylus J (2023), Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor. Front Public Health, Jan 6;10:1058729. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1058729. PMID: 36684940; PMCID: PMC9853016. (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1058729/full)