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Lisa Miners

PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science, Environmental Economics

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Lisa is a PhD Candidate (Health Economics) in the department of Environmental Economics at of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research will be exploring the health effects of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other ‘forever chemicals’.

Prior to her current role, Lisa was a Senior Research Associate in the Health Economics Group at the University of East Anglia. She originally studied in Microbiology (University of Reading) before completing an MSc in Health Economics at UEA. She has personal interests in socioeconomic access inequalities in healthcare.