Profile
Sara Pedron was a research associate at the professorship of Public Health and Prevention at the TUM between February 2021 and August 2023. From December 2016 to April 2021 she worked as research associate at the Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM). In September 2021 she completed her PhD in "Medical Research - Epidemiology and Public Health" at the Munich Medical Research School (MMRS - LMU Munich). Previously she completed her Bachelor degree in Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Bolzano-Bozen (IT) and her Master degree in Health Economics and Health Care Management at the University of Hamburg (DE).
Research Interests
- Socioeconomic and behavioral determinants of cardiometabolic health
- Economic consequences of cardiometabolic diseases
- Health economic evaluation of prevention programmes
- Evaluation of public health interventions using quasi-experimental methods
Selected publications
Pedron, S., Kurz, C.F., Schwettmann, L. & Laxy, M. (2021). The effect of BMI and type 2 diabetes on socioeconomic status: a two-sample multivariable Mendelian randomization study. Diabetes Care, 2021. DOI: 10.2337/dc20-1721.
Pedron, S., Schmaderer, K., Murawski, M., & Schwettmann, L. (2020). The association between childhood socioeconomic status and adult health behavior: the role of locus of control. Social Science Research, 102521.
Pedron, S., Maier, W., Peters, A., Linkohr, B., Meisinger, C., Rathmann, W., Eibich, P. & Schwettmann, L. (2020). The effect of retirement on biomedical and behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease. Economics & Human Biology, 100893.
Pedron, S., Emmert-Fees, K., Laxy, M., & Schwettmann, L. (2019). The impact of diabetes on labour market participation: a systematic review of results and methods. BMC public health, 19(1), 25.
