Vincenzo Atella is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" where he teaches Macroeconomics and  courses in Applied Economics at graduate level. He is also CHP/PCOR (Center for health Policy) Adjunct Affiliate at Stanford University.

His most recent research activity has focused on poverty, taxation, income distribution and health economics. In this last field his research deals with the introduction of new technologies into the health sector, the impact of different co-payment systems on pharmaceutical decision making by physicians and on drug consumption by patients, and with health related income inequalities. The results of this reasearch activity have been published on several international refereed journals as well books

Currently, he is member of the “Strategic Evaluation Committee” of the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA) and member of SIVEAS (Health Care Services National Evaluation System) of the Ministry of Health. He is also member of the Committee of Experts advising IQWiG (the German Agency for Health Care) for setting national guidelines for Economic Evaluation in the health sector.

In the recent past he served as senior economist in the Italian Regional Agency for Health Care Services (http://www.assr.it/), as advisor for the National Institute of Health (http://www.iss.it/) on a project aimed at monitoring Italian public pharmaceutical expenditures, as member of the Italian Committee for Drug Price appointed by the Ministry of Treasury and as consultant for WHO (http://www.who.int/en/) and World Bank. He has been member of the scientific advisory committee of the 5th European Conference on Health Economics.