Silvia Evers studied Health Sciences (Mental Health Sciences; Health Policy & Administration), Epidemiology, and Law (Labour and Social; Health Law). Since the early nineties, she has been working as a researcher in the field of Economic Evaluations/Health Technology Assessment at the Institute for Rehabilitation Research, the Maastricht University (Epidemiology; Health Economics; Medical Sociology), the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Centre for Care Studies), the University of Amsterdam (Pedagogics), and the University Hospital Maastricht (Neurosurgery). Next to research she has been working as a legal (Ethical Commission Psychology) and policy advisor at the Faculty of Psychology of Maastricht University, where she headed the Research Institute of the Faculty Board. Currently she holds a Chair on Public Health Technology Assessment at the Maastricht University, Department of Health Services Research. Next to that, she has worked at the Trimbos Institute, the Centre of expertise on mental health and addiction in the field of HTA research since 2013. At the Maastricht University, she is programme leader of the programme ‘Creating value-based health care’ and profile coordinator of the HTA-trace of the Health Sciences Research Master. She is involved as an HTA-project leader, promotor and supervisor in numerous (clinical) trials funded both nationally (ZonMw, NWO, industry, etc), and internationally (EU, OECD). She is a co-ordinator and a senior lecturer in HTA and Health Economic courses. Her chief current research efforts are directed towards the methodology of economic evaluation of public health interventions, meta-analysis and quality of life analysis. She has a special interest in the application of these methods looking at innovative interventions in the field of brain related and mental diseases, public health, youth, and rehabilitation. She is a member of several national and international working groups, editor for several journals, and a referee for various research programmes.