Guillermo Paraje, Ph.D.

Dr. Guillermo Paraje is a Professor of economics at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Business School in Chile. He specializes in health economics topics, such as health equity, health systems, and non-communicable diseases. Relating to non-communicable diseases, he has developed policy-oriented research to implement effective tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverage control policies in Latin American countries. Previously, he was a Consultant for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Program, UNICEF, other organizations. He was also a member of a Presidential Commission to Reform Health Insurance in Chile.

Guillermo received his bachelor’s in economics from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina, an MPhil (Master of Philosophy), and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tobacconomics is directed by Jeffrey Drope, PhD. It was founded by Frank Chaloupka, PhD, at the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. This website was originally developed with support from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (Grant No. U01-CA154248) as part of the NCI State and Community Tobacco Control Research Initiative. The contents of this Web site are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Privacy Policy