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Mehdi Shiva is a research leader at the RAND Europe. Prior to joining RAND, he led the economics research and policy agenda at GO Lab (University of Oxford), performed as a health economist at the University of Dundee/Ninewells Hospital and as a research director for an entrepreneurial company in collaboration with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). Shiva has also done some fellowship and consultancy work in the international development sector with NGOs. He holds PhD (Dundee), MSc (PSE, Paris 1), and BSc (Tehran) degrees in Economics.
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I am a sociologist interested in the transformations of healthcare, particularly through the introduction of new health technologies or extending existing technologies to new patient groups. I conduct qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. My research has looked at the social and ethical issues around genomic medicine (including genetic testing and screening and genome editing), synthetic biology (including cultured blood and induced pluripotent stem cell therapy), and (pandemic and seasonal) influenza vaccines and HPV vaccines.
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Notification Team, Inclusive Policy Lab
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Dr. Bashir NAJEEB is a Public Health and Development Practitioner with over 10 years of working experiences with the United Nations with responsibilities to provide leadership, technical and programmatic support mainly in the area of Reproductive Health, Gender, Population and Development, and Emergency Preparedness and Response.
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Iulia works with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on inclusive growth, social policy, and knowledge impact on policy. She is the Chief of Section a.i. for Management of Social Transformations and Foresight, leading the work on the MOST intergovernmental programme and the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab. Prior to UNESCO, Iulia worked on the same agendas with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Her appointments with the United Nations were preceded by work with the US Aid Development Agency (USAID)/International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). Iulia holds an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, following on from a degree in economics.