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Dennis is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University. He was previously a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Lecturer in Health Economics at the University of Dundee, UK. He has published extensively on the economics of illicit drugs and alcohol, economics of disability, economics of cancer, the longitudinal measurement and evaluation of health inequalities and has lead a large number of economic evaluations of healthcare interventions including alongside RCTs. He has consistently published in the top health economics journals, with multiple papers in the Journal of Health Economics (3), Health Economics (5) and Social Science & Medicine (5) and also high impact medical journals including BMJ, PLOS Medicine, Addiction (2), Diabetologia, Diabetes Care (2) and Epidemiology (2). He specialises in analysing large and complex data sets to improve health policy decisions.
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George is a Senior Lecturer in Practice in Health Policy at LSE, with an academic background in International Relations and Health Policy. George began his career at Deutsche Bank before joining the UK Civil Service. George worked in a variety of policy roles before helping establish Healthcare UK, a government agency which promotes international partnerships on behalf of the UK health-care and life sciences sectors. As COO, he worked with governments around the world to address health policy challenges. George went on to join Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, as Head of International Business Development before joining LSE in 2018. At LSE, George teaches and mentors MSc students in international health systems and financing, and coordinates a variety of teaching, research and advisory partnerships. He has written/consulted for WHO, the Commonwealth Fund, philanthropic foundations and pharmaceutical companies, and has co-authored articles on health systems and policies in The BMJ and The Lancet, among others.
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Olivier is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he researches the pricing and affordability of medicines in countries around the world. He is Co-Director of the master's degree in Global Health Policy at the LSE. Olivier holds a PhD in Health Policy from the LSE. He also holds an MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics) from the LSE and a BSc in International Relations from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
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I work in the area of health systems and health policy in India. It is my understanding that well being of the planet is extremely important to ensure well being of its inhabitant. including Humans. Instead of wealth generation being the primary guiding principle any of economic and innovation activity, it should be promoting ecological balance and global harmony. Science, arts and policy should be directed at making every village/locality self sufficient in basic necessity for healthy survival and this should become integral part of every local culture. We should encourage work to harness the knowledge and wisdom of various ancient civilization and cultivate it and adapt it to the modern times. Promoting need for healthy living and not greed should be the driving force of life activity not wealth generation. The challenge is how do you introduce the new paradigm of incentives which is based on altruistic living, internal peace and global harmony. - The new world order.
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I am currently working as Research Associate (postdoc) at IRSEI, University of Luxembourg. My research interests include the sociology of education, social stratification and educational inequality, comparative research in educational and labour market inequalities as well as quantitative methodology.
I am currently working on three main research lines: i) Inequality of educational opportunity in access to higher education in Chile; ii) Wage inequalities and the value of education and skills in labour markets in the Americas; iii) Wealth effects on inequalities in a range of social outcomes; iv) educational inequalities and privately-driven stratification over time in Chile and across Latin American countries
I am a Ph.D. (c) at the Sociology department of the University of Amsterdam and affiliated with the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies, and the programme group Institutions, Inequalities and Life courses (IIL). My PhD research focuses on the generation of social differentials in individual educational outcomes and educational pathways in Chile as a country case, and Latin America.
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I'm a PhD candidate in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. My current research focus is on welfare policy. I am using applied economics and administrative data to explore the effects of different rules and restrictions imposed on income support recipients.
Before my PhD, I worked as an economist in government, and in a research lab focusing on running randomised evaluations to estimate the effects of social policies and programmes.
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Sociologist, Social Science Researcher, Sustainable Development advocate.
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I am a final year Earth Sciences student at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. I have worked with several charities and organisations which include working with the Climate Crisis Foundation where he worked as a student consultant. In December 2019, I was part of the team which founded ‘Big Cambridge Climate Change Conversation’ (BC4) which focuses on monitoring carbon emissions and suggesting policies to reduce these emissions.
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Farah has 2 years experience in PMO in a western environment. Farah is a program manager and stakeholder manager at Qantara Sports. She held meetings to develop project plans and communicate with clients and managing and coordinating the strategic implementation for national scale projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with different national and international entities. Previously, Farah had worked in a non-profit organization implementing international programs in the sport ecosystem area in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Farah holds a bachelor degree in International Finance from Dublin City University .
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A Health Economist with 19 years experience of undertaking research in both physical and mental health, with a specific focus on economic evaluation (cost-effectiveness analysis) of varying interventions.