BIOGRAPHY

Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of LSE Health. He is also the Co-Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He has served as an advisor to several agencies including WHO, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the World Bank, Ministries of Health and Social Affairs in Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Greece, Russian Federation, Slovenia, South Africa and Sweden and health insurance funds in Austria, Croatia and Hungary. He has been a member of the management board of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (2000-2003) and has contributed to the work of the International Forum on 'Common access to health care services' co-ordinated by the health ministers of Sweden, UK and New Zealand. In 2002 and 2007 he won the European Health Management Association's annual prize for the best publication in health policy and management in Europe. In 2010 he was awarded the Andrija Stampar medal by the Association of Schools of Public Health in Europe (ASPHER) and the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), for contributions to European public health.Elias is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) and of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in London and Edinborough and and Honorary Consultant in Public Health with the South East London NHS Strategic Health Authority. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Imperial College, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique in France. He edits the Cambridge University Press Health Economics, Policy and Management book series and co-edits an Open University Press book series on Health Care Systems. He is co-editor in chief of Health Economics, Policy and Law, a journal published by Cambridge University Press, and editor in chief of the Health Systems in Transition reports published by WHO.

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