Emilia Simeonova, PhD (Economics from Columbia University in 2008) is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

She joined the Carey School in 2013. Between 2011-2012 she was a research fellow at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University.

Emilia’s research interests in the economics of health care delivery, patient adherence to therapy and the interaction between physicians and patients, racial disparities in health outcomes, the long-term effects of shocks to children's health and the intergenerational transmission of health. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Danish Academy of Sciences.

Emilia Simeonova joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2020.