Value in Health Regional Issues Paper of the Year Award

Authors:  Carleigh Krubiner, Aviva Tugendhaft, Michael J DiStefano, Nicola W Barsdorf, Maria W Merritt, Susan J Goldstein, Atiya Mosam, Sunita Potgieter, Karen J Hofman, Ruth R Faden

Authors:  Takeru Shiroiwa, Tatsunori Murata, Jeonghoon Ahn, Xue Li

Value in Health Regional Issues (Asia pacific)

Authors:  Fang Zhang PhD, Quan Sun MD

Value in Health Regional Issues (Central and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Africa)

Authors:  Omar Rashdan, Valentin Brodszky

Value in Health Regional Issues (ASIA PACIFIC)

Authors:  Syed Shahzad Hasan, Chia Siang Kow, Dalia Dawoud, Omneya Mohamed, Darrin Baines, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

Dr Syed Shahzad HASAN joined the University of Huddersfield in Sep 2017 and is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow in Pharmacy. He also holds a conjoint Senior Lecturer position at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Dr Hasan has taught a range of clinical pharmacy practice-related topics at universities in Malaysia (2007–2011 & 2015–2017), Australia (2012–2014 & 2018–to date), and the UK (2017–to date) and draws on experience as a pharmacist and researcher. His research focuses on pharmacoepidemiology, quality use of medicines, pharmaceutical policy and practice, medication safety & reviews, and evidence synthesis. Dr Hasan won a competitive, merit-based International Postgraduate Research Scholarship to complete a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Hasan has published numerous research articles in leading health sciences journals, supervised many research students, and actively participates in the peer review process for several scientific journals.

Value in Health Regional Issues (Central and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Africa)

Authors:  Alexandra Beletsi, Vassiliki Koutrafouri, Eleftheria Karampli, Elpida Pavi

Alexandra Beletsi, PharmD, PhD, has more than 15 years of commercial experience in pharmaceutical industry, with 10 years in the management team as Head of the Market Access Department and the last 3 years as the Head of the Medical Affairs Department in the Les Laboratoires Servier affiliate in Greece. In 1999, she received an MSc Degree in Industrial Pharmaceutics and in 2001 her PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from University of Patras, Department of Pharmacy, Greece, having a Scholarship of the National Scholarship Foundation (IKY). In 2016, she received an MSc degree in Health Services Management, with a Direction of Economic Evaluation, from the National School of Public Health (ESDY), in Greece. Dr Beletsi’s main research interests include comparative health policy and healthcare reforms, and pharmaceutical economics, focusing in the pricing and reimbursement of medicines.

Value in Health Regional Issues (Latin America)

Authors:  José Miguel Uribe-Restrepo, Diana M Pinto, Andres I Vecino-Ortiz, Carlos Gómez-Restrepo, Martín Rondón

José Miguel Uribe-Restrepo, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at Javeriana University Medical School and member of the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá. From 2004 to 2009, he was the Medical Director of the Clinica La Inmaculada in Bogotá, and during the last 25 years has practiced clinical psychiatry and psychotherapy both in private and public settings. Since 2006, he has been part of the GESESM group, an interdisciplinary collaboration for economic and social studies in mental health at Javeriana University. In 2013, he received his Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. During the last 5 years, he has been part of collaborative research projects in Global Mental Health focusing on Colombia and is an expert consultant at Dartmouth College for the Scaling Up Science-based Mental Health Interventions for the Latin America implementation research project.

Value in Health Regional Issues (Asia)

Authors:  Eui-Kyung Lee, Ji Haeng Heo, Karen L Rascati

Value in Health Regional Issues (Latin America)

Authors:  Ivan Mauricio Muñoz- Galindo, Natalia Elizabeth Guarín Téllez, Jairo Alexander Moreno Calderón, Jorge Augusto Díaz Rojas, Helbert Orlando Arévalo Roa 

Value in Health Regional Issues (Central and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Africa)

Authors:  Aleš Tichopád, Juliana Müllerová MSc, Teresa Jackowska MD, Eva Nemes MD, PhD, Petr Pazdiora MD, PhD, Brigitte Sloesen PharmD, Mária Štefkovičová MD, MPH, PhD

Following his graduation at the Technical University Munich, Ales Tichopad has been working for several research organization in various roles from Biostatistician, Health Economics Analyst to Managing Director. In 2008 Ales Tichopad co-founded CEEOR, the Central and Eastern European Outcomes Research organization that provided its worldwide customers with Real World Evidence and Market Access Services in the Central and Eastern Europe and on other predominantly emerging markets. Beside his role in CEEOR Ales Tichopad was active in academia, lecturing at Technical University Munich, Czech Technical University Prague and Czech Academy of Science. In 2015, CEEOR was acquired by Kantar Health.

Value in Health Regional Issues (Asia)

Authors:  Fei-Li Zhao, Lan Gao, Shu-Chuen Li

Fei-Li Zhao, PhD, is a health economist with experiences gained from working in both academia and industry. Her research capacity and interests lie in economic evaluation using trial and real-world data, quality of life research and preference measurement, and health services research in Asia Pacific countries. Dr Zhao regularly undertakes research on behalf of the government and non-government agencies. This includes providing high quality, expert health technology assessment advice and support to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) for national reimbursement decision makings of pharmaceuticals and vaccines in Australia. She has presented nationally and internationally on her research and published series of papers on high-profile journals such as Value in Health, Pharmacoeconomics, PLOS One, Medical Care, Health Quality of Life Outcomes and BMC pregnancy and childbirth.

Value in Health Regional Issues (Latin America)

Authors:   Mônica Viegas Andrade, Kenya Noronha, Paul Kind, Ana Carolina Maia, Renata Miranda de Menezes, Carla De Barros Reis, Michelle Nepomuceno Souza, Diego Martins, Lucas Gomes, Daniel Nichele, Julia Calazans, Tamires Mascarenhas, Lucas Carvalho, Camila Lins

Dr Andrade is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Dr Andrade works with applied microeconomics, specifically with health economics and evaluation of social programs. She received her PhD in Economics at the Graduate School of Getulio Vargas Foundation (1996 to 2000), Rio de Janeiro, and won the Award of best PhD dissertation, provided by the Associação Nacional de pós-Graduação em Economia, Haralambus Simonidis in 2000. In 2008-2009, she spent one year as a visiting researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, Center for Health Economics. At the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Monica is the leader of Health Economics Research Group, Grupo de Estudos em Economia da Saude e Criminalidade. The research group has carried out important investigations, including the estimation of social preferences for EQ-5D health states for Brazil. Monica was also the Dean of the Graduate Program of Economics during the period of 2003-2008. Monica is currently spending one year as a Takemi Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, Global Health and Population Department. Monica is also a Researcher 1D of the National Council of Research (CNPQ) in Brazil and Member of the Committee (Economics) of the National Council of Research in Brazil.

Value in Health Regional Issues (Central and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Africa)

Rok Hren, PhD, has more than 15 years of commercial experience in pharmaceutical industry, with more than 10 years on a board level in both line management, which has included full P&L responsibility for operations in Slovenia and Romania, and regional leadership functions in Central and Eastern Europe. He regularly presents on the topic of pharmaceutical economics and policies at conferences in Europe and is well experienced in health care media business. Currently, he holds the position of a Managing Director of Carso, a Member of Salus Group PLC (SALR.SI). He received his PhD in Physiology and Biophysics from Dalhousie University, Canada and MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics) with distinction from London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana and a President of ISPOR Slovenia Regional Chapter. In total, his publications gathered 240/341citations (excluding self-citations) in WoS/Scopus (as of September 16, 2015).