Thomas Rapp

Thomas Rapp, PhD, is a professor of economics at Université Paris Cité, specialized in health economics, ageing economics, and health policy analysis. He is the director of the AgingUP! Excellency Chaire at Fondation Université Paris Cité. He is a former Harkness fellow in health policy and practice at Harvard (2015-2016) and health economist at the OECD (2017-2019). His research is published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals (Health Economics, Medical Care, Social Science and Medicine, JAMA open, etc.), book chapters etc. Since 2016, he has been associate editor of the Value in Health Journal. In 2015, he created (and led until 2018) a masters’ degree in health economics at Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi. For the past 10 years, he has been participating in several research grants (sponsored by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the Commonwealth Fund of New York, the European Commission''s Innovative Medicines Initiative program, AXA mécénat etc.) as principal investigator, co-PI, or work package leader. He has been an invited professor at Harvard, Columbia, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Roma.

Twitter : @ThomRapp

"Socio-fiscal Policies" Research Group

Articles and Contributions to Collective Works

• Cheneau A. Rapp, T., Sicsic J. (2026). Home over institution? New insights on older adults’ care preferences from a mixed-methods study in France. Accepted for publication in PLOS One
• Anderson M, Wimmer S, Pittam B, Henschke C, Sutton M, Rapp T, Gutacker N, Friebel R. The relationship between healthcare provider ownership and performance in high-income countries: An umbrella review. Health Econ Policy Law. 2025 Dec 26:1-23.
• Blavet T, Chopard B, Rapp T, Sicsic J. Misperception, self-reported probabilities and long-term care insurance take-up in the United States. Int J Health Econ Manag. 2026 Feb 11;26(1):3.
• Lee, A. R., Yang, Y., Rapp, T., & Torres, J. M. (2025). Evaluating the impact of the Medicaid Balancing Incentive Programme on long-term care utilisation by living arrangement: a quasi-experimental study. BMJ Open. 2025 Nov 13;15(11):e104206.
• Lee, A. R., Yang, Y., Rapp, T., & Torres, J. M. (2025). Racial and Ethnic Inequities in the Relationship Between State Home and Community-Based Services Expenditures and Long-Term Care Utilization in the United States: A Fixed-Effects Analysis. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1–17
• Zarca K., Bekkar Z, Rapp T, Durand-Zaleski I, Feral-Pierssens AL (2025). Hospital admissions for undocumented immigrants: a comparative analysis of French healthcare coverage schemes, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 35, Issue 4, August 2025, Pages 687–692
• Cheneau A. Rapp, T., Sicsic J. (2025). Et si je ne pouvais plus rester seul(e) chez moi ? » Quelles sont les attentes des personnes âgées et de leurs proches concernant les aides et l’accompagnement de la perte d’autonomie ?. Lien social et Politiques (94), 201-238
• Cheneau A, Rapp, T. (2025). A New Approach for Assessing the Value of Informal Care in Alzheimer’s Disease. Value Health. 2025; 28:545-552
• Szeftel D, Jouhet V, Duluc G, Charle-Maachi C, Sejourné T, Fabiano J, Guimiot H, Gaignon A, Germain C, Demanet Q, Merieux E, Rapp T, (2025) Health data: Regionalised access is a priority challenge for building a secure, transparent and innovative national health data repository, GIENS workshops 2024 /E-health and artificial intelligence.
•  Rapp, T., Lin Pei J. (2025). The Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders. Value in Health. 28:495-496
• Yang Y, Lee AR, Portacolone E, Rapp T, Torres JM (2024). State home- and community-based services spending and unmet care needs by living arrangements and cognitive impairment status. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Jul 15. doi: 10.1111/jgs.19088. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39007458.
• Yang Y, Lee AR, Rapp T, Chen R, Glymour MM, Torres JM. (2024) State home and community-based services expenditures and unmet care needs in the United States: Has everyone benefitted equally? Health Serv Res. 2024
• Mounie M, Fabre D, Rapp T, Rolland Y, Blain H, Tchalla A, Carcaillon-Bentata L, Beltzer N, Assous L, Apparitio S, Caby D, Reina N, Andre L, Molinier L, Costa N. (2023). Costs and Survival of Patients having Experienced a Hospitalized Fall-Related Injury in France: A Population-Based Study. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2023 Jul;24(7):951-957.e4.
• Cunningham K, Banaszak-Holl J, Rapp T, McHugh JP (2023).  Economic and social barriers to accessing long-term care services and policies across countries. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Aging and Global Public Health.
• Rapp T, Jena AB, Costa-Font J, Grabowski DC. (2023) Caregiving across generations: Do older adults with more grandchildren get another bite at the "sandwich" generation? Soc Sci Med. 2023 Oct;334:116199. 
• Rapp T, Sicsic J, Ronchetti J, Cicchetti A; SPRINTT consortium. (2023) Preventing autonomy loss with multicomponent geriatric interventions: A resource-saving strategy? Evidence from the SPRINT-T study. SSM Popul Health. 2023 Oct 5;24:101507. 
• Sicsic, J., Ronchetti, J., Rapp, T. (2023). Le bien-vieillir en France et dans les pays de l’OCDE. Une analyse à partir d’une nouvelle mesure d’âge physiologique. Médecine et Sciences 2023 ; 39.
• Rapp T, Sicsic J, Tavassoli N, Rolland Y. Do not PIMP my nursing home ride! The impact of Potentially Inappropriate Medications Prescribing on residents' emergency care use. Eur J Health Econ. 2023 Sep;24(7):1085-1100.
• Bell-Aldeghi R., Gibrat B., Chauvin P., Rapp T., Ould-Kaci K., Sevilla-Dedieu C (2022). Determinants Of The Cost-Effectiveness Of Telemedecine: Results From A Systematic Review And Multivariable Analysis. Telemedicine and e-Health. 2022.
• Portacolone, E.; Torres, J.M.; Johnson, J.K.; Benton, D.; Rapp, T.; Tran, T.; Martinez, P.; Graham, C (2022). The Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment Project’s Policy Advisory Group on Long-Term Services and Supports: Setting a Research Equity Agenda. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 6021.
• Rapp T, Ronchetti J, Sicsic J. Where Are Populations Aging Better? A Global Comparison of Healthy Aging Across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Countries. Value Health. 2022 Sep;25(9):1520-1527.  
• Rapp T, Ronchetti J, Sicsic J. Impact of formal care consumption on informal care use in Europe: What is happening at the beginning of dependency? Health Policy. 2022 July
• Rapp, T., David-Bertrand, A. Sicsic, J. (2022), Dépendance : quel bilan du quinquennat ? Tribunes de la Santé, 2022
• Rapp, T. Whicher, D (2022), The Value of Artificial Intelligence for Health Care Decision Making – Lessons learned from a Value in Health themed section, Mar;25(3):328-330, Value in Health.
• Thomas RAPP, ROQUEBERT, Q., SICSIC, J., SANTOS-EGGIMANN, B. et al. Frailty, Sarcopenia and Long Term Care Utilization In Older Populations: A Systematic Review The Journal of Frailty & Aging 2021
• Thomas RAPP, ROQUEBERT, Q., SICSIC, J., et al. Health measures and long-term care use in the European frail population The European Journal of Health Economics 22, p. 405–423 2021
• Thomas RAPP, RONCHETTI, J., SICSIC, J. Are long-term care jobs harmful? Evidence from Germany The European Journal of Health Economics Accepted for publication, 2021
• Thomas RAPP, MCHUGH, J., MOTAMASUR, S., MOR, V. Higher Hospital Referral Concentration Associated with Lower Risk Patients in Skilled Nursing Facilities Health Services Research Accepted for publication, 2021
• Thomas RAPP, Jérôme RONCHETTI, Jonathan SICSIC Are long-term care jobs harmful? Evidence from Germany The European Journal of Health Economics avril 2021
• Thomas RAPP, Quitterie ROQUEBERT, Jonathan SICSIC Mettre le « value-based aging » au cœur des politiques de dépendance LIEPP Policy Brief n°53, Juin 2021
• Thomas RAPP, Jérôme RONCHETTI, Jonathan SICSIC Les métiers du grand âge, métiers à risque ? LIEPP Policy Brief n°56, Novembre 2021
• Thomas RAPP, SICSIC, J., RAVESTEJIN, B Are frail elderly people in Europe high-need subjects? First evidence from the SPRINTT data. Health Policy Volume 124, Issue 8, p. 865-872, August 2020
• Thomas RAPP, SICSIC, J., The contribution of the immigrant population to the US long-term care workforce Social Science and Medicine Volume 263, October 2020
• Thomas RAPP, ROLLAND, Y., NEDA TAVASSOLI, N., SOUTO BARRETO, P., PERRIN, A., LAFFON DE MAZIERES, C., HERMABESSIERES, S., TOURNAY, E., VELLAS, B., ANDRIEU, S. Systematic dementia screening by multidisciplinary team meetings in nursing homes for reducing emergency department transfers: the IDEM cluster-randomised controlled trial JAMA network Open 2020 3(2) , p. 1-13 2020
• Thomas RAPP, BUSSIERE, C. SIRVEN, N., SEVILLA DEDIEU, C. Adherence to medical follow-up recommendations reduces hospital admissions: Evidence from diabetic patients in France. Accepted for publication Health Economics 29 (2) 2020
• Thomas RAPP, SIRVEN, N. DUMONTET, M., The Dynamics of Frailty and Change in Socio-Economic Conditions: Evidence for the 65+ in Europe European Journal of Public Health Volume 30, Issue 4, p. 715–719, August 2020
• Thomas RAPP, CHAUVIN, P, BELLANGER, M, SIRVEN, N, Heterogeneity in Drug Recommendation Compliance: Evidence from France of a Gender Bias in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Patients Journal de gestion et d'économie de la santé 2020/2 (2), p. 93-109 2020