Dr Roman-Urrestarazu trained as a physician specialising in Health Economics and Psychiatry. His research interests are related to developmental disorders such as Schizophrenia and ADHD. He is interested in the role that the cerebellum might have in expressing cognitive deficits and clinical symptoms, and how this developmental process is linked to working memory. He is also interest in the link between NCDs and mental health and how this might influence expenditure and health care utilisation. He has developed his research questions in large such as the 1986 NFBC and he is currently working in the Qatar Health Survey 2015. Other research interest include health economics modelling are mental health economics and insurance markets and pharmacoeconomics.
He is also the Gillings Fellow in Autism Research and Global Public Health at the University of Cambridge.

Banning kratom won't stop users or solve the drugs health crisis – so why continue this losing war?
Sep 15, 2016 15:52 pm UTC| Health
While we have seen a surge in new psychoactive substances in recent years, there has also been a rediscovery in the West of old herbal narcotics that have traditionally been used in different parts of the world. One...