Prof. Elena Druică
Romania
Research work
Research Work:
Elena Druică is a quantitative social scientist whose research focuses on governance and institutional resilience in socio-economic and health systems. Her work examines how communities, public institutions, and healthcare systems adapt to shocks, uncertainty, and structural transitions. She has contributed to research on community resilience, antifragility, social capital, institutional trust, and health-related behavioral adaptation, including preventive behavior and system responses during COVID-19.
Professional Experience:
Elena Druică is affiliated with the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Business and Administration, Department of Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods. She serves as advisor to the Romanian Authority for Quality Management in Healthcare and to the Alliance of Chronic Patients in Romania, contributing to evidence-based health policy and system quality assessment. She supervises doctoral research in governance, resilience, and healthcare systems, and is actively involved in Horizon Europe and national research consortia, including PRESILIENT and projects on polycentric governance and system stability. Her work bridges academic research and policy practice, providing methodological expertise for institutional reform, health system resilience, and adaptive governance strategies.
Education:
- Bachelor Degree: Mathematics
- Master's Degree: Mathematics; Economics
- PhD: Statistics; Economics
- Habilitation: Administrative Sciences
Areas of interest & scientific knowledge
Romania
- Place of affiliation
Resilience and Wellbeing
- Individual, Community and National Resilience
Selected Publications
- Druică, E., Vâlsan, C., & Aligică, D. P. (2025). What matters most to the perception of community resilience in Romania?. Journal of Community Psychology, 53(2), e23156. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23156
- Vâlsan, C., Druică, E., & Aligică, P. D. (2025). Fostering Antifragility: What Policymakers Should Know About Individual Resilience in Romania. Administrative Sciences, 15(6), 236. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci15060236
- Vâlsan, C., Druică, E., Goschin, Z., & Ianole-Călin, R. (2024). The perception of economic growth and the Romanian “Mioritic Syndrome”. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 15(1), 3718-3739. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01294-w
- Vâlsan, C., Goschin, Z., & Druică, E. (2023). The measurement of social capital in America: a reassessment. Social Indicators Research, 165(1), 135-161. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-022-03007-3
- Druică, E., Musso, F., & Ianole-Călin, R. (2020). Optimism bias during the COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical evidence from Romania and Italy. Games, 11(3), 39. https://doi.org/10.3390/g1103003
