Helena de Moraes Achcar has a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Her thesis focused on South-South cooperation between Brazil and Mozambique, where she did fieldwork to investigate the establishment of the first national pharmaceutical factory in sub-Saharan Africa, and an agricultural project called ProSavana. Her current research is about civil society’s demand and mobilization (and demobilization) for universal access to treatment in Brazil. Her interests include public health, discourse analysis and South-South cooperation.

Jon Cylus is the head of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies’ London Hubs based at both the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as well as a Senior Health Economist in the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing and a Visiting Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). His main research is on health systems, focusing primarily on health financing policy, health economics and health system performance. He has worked on these topics in a wide range of countries as well as with international organizations including the European Commission and OECD. Prior to joining the Observatory, Jon was an economist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the United States where he worked on health care expenditure projections, hospital productivity, and health care expenditure estimates by age and gender.

Billy Dering is a Research Fellow at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University. He has worked on projects with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies related to health financing. Billy previously worked in the U.S. Senate on health policy topics and on the health financing team at Epic Systems. He earned an MPH from the University of Michigan in the Department of Health Management and Policy, and a BA with distinction in Public Policy from the University of Michigan. Billy previously worked in the U.S. Senate on health policy topics and on the health financing team at Epic Systems. He holds a BA with distinction in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Stamps Scholarship.

Michelle Falkenbach (PhD, University of Michigan) is a technical officer at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies main office in Brussels and a research associate in the department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. Her main area of research is on the health and care workforce, focusing primarily on ways to increase retention and recruitment efforts for this sector. Prior to joining the Observatory, Dr. Falkenbach was a post-doctoral research at Cornell University focusing on the impact of populist radical right parties on health and health systems.

Elize Massard da Fonseca is Associate Professor of Public Administration at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), with years of experience researching pharmaceutical regulation in Latin America, health industry policy, and the politics of infectious diseases. Her publications have appeared in top journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, and Research Policy; some were featured as the most downloaded (The political economy of Covid-19 vaccine regulation), most cited (The comparative politics of COVID-19), and with a higher score of attention (Coronavirus Politics). Her research, funded by FAPESP (#2021/06202–0), has proposed actions to improve access to pharmaceuticals in developing economies.

Scott L. Greer is a political scientist and specialist in the comparative politics of health, with special interests in federalism, the European Union, health governance and social policy. His recent books include Putting Federalism in its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited (2023); Everything you always wanted to know about European Union health policy but were afraid to ask (third edition, 2022); Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies (2021); Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19 (2021); and The European Union after Brexit (2021).

Iris Holmes, Cornell Institute of Host-Microbe Interactions and Disease

Holly Jarman is Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health within the University of Michigan School of Public Health. As a political scientist, she compares health policies across countries and studies the impact of economic policies on health at the global level. She is the author of over 30 peer reviewed articles and several books on the governance of trade, tobacco products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and pandemic response. She also serves as Senior Social Scientist for the US Army Corps of Engineers, advising the US Federal government on comparative policy analysis and global pandemic response.

Ogujiuba Kanayo is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Development Studies at the University of Mpumalanga (UMP), South Africa. In the last three decades, Prof. Ogujiuba has played a significant role in cross-institutional collaboration and research, initiating activities furthering research development, and innovation activities. Before joining UMP, he was at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa between 2016 and 2019. Furthermore, Prof. Ogujiuba’s understands indicators and information necessary to determine trends in counterfactual analysis and development policy. Additionally, Ogujiuba K. has built up solid relationships for academic collaboration between universities across the globe and supervises postgraduate students. He has published more than hundred (100) articles in peer-reviewed journals/conference proceedings/Technical Reports, in addition to more than fifteen (15) book chapters. He has been a policy advisor and team leader for several international agencies and a member of management committees throughout his career.

Jamison Koeman is the Program Manager of Housing Solutions for Health Equity at the University of Michigan and Public Health IDEAS for Creating Healthy and Equitable Cities at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is an expert on the intersection between housing and health and has published about health system investment in housing services. He has experience in eviction and foreclosure prevention work in Detroit and health policy work at the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). Jamison received his MPH in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Ellen Kuhlmann, PhD sociology, MPH, specialised nurse, is currently an interim Professor of Health and Health Systems care at the University of Siegen, Germany, and leading a project on migrant healthcare workers at Hannover Medical School as part of the German Global Health Research Alliance (GLOHRA) programme. Ellen is President of the European Public Health Association section ‘Health Workforce Research’ (EUPHA-HWR). She is researching health systems, policy and governance comparatively with a focus on the healthcare workforce, gender and intersectional inequalities, and COVID-19 policy.

Gabriela Lotta is a Professor of Public Administration at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). She was a visiting professor at Oxford in 2021. She coordinates the Bureaucracy Studies Center (NEB). She is a professor at the National School of Public Administration, ENAP, a researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), and in Brazil.Lab from Princeton University. Lotta received her B.Sc. in public administration and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of São Paulo. In 2021 she was nominated among the most influential academics in the area of government.

Roshanak Mehdipanah is Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Dr. Mehdipanah is Director of the Housing Solutions for Health Equity initiative and co-leads the Public Health IDEAS: Creating Healthy and Equitable Cities. She completed her PhD at the University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Her research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, and focuses on the impact of urban policies, particularly related to the built environment, on health and health inequities of residents.

Marie Chantel Montás, Harvard University

Olaide O. Ojoniyi holds a doctoral degree in Population Studies. She is an Individual Consultant who recently completed a Census Thematic Analysis Report on Gender with the Pacific office of UNFPA. Her main research focus is on Adolescent girls and young women’s sexual and reproductive health; Child and Maternal Health; Fertility and Equality. Over the years she has used quantitative methods to study these issues. She is currently exploring the computational method to study social and health issues. She won the 2016 Postgraduate merit award at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. She is a student member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

Janamarie Perroud, University of Michigan

Olivia Rockwell is a Global Health and Management graduate student at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. She is a National Science Foundation Researcher and a Health Management and Policy Governance Lab Fellow. Previously, she was a Visiting Researcher for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. She has been featured in an article in the BMJ and the recent European Observatory publication Health for All Policies.

Luigi Siciliani, Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York

Kristine Sørensen, Global Health Literacy Academy

Praneetha Vissapragada, University of Michigan

Gemma A. Williams is a Research Fellow at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and a PhD researcher in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. She conducts comparative health systems research, focusing primarily on the health and care workforce, health financing policy, health inequalities, healthy ageing, and digital health. Her work on these topics has been published in numerous peer reviewed articles, book chapters and policy reports. Gemma is co-editor of Eurohealth, the Observatory’s quarterly journal. Gemma previously worked as a Research Officer at LSE Health and as an ODI Fellow Health Economist in the Rwandan Ministry of Health.

Charley E. Willison (PhD, University of Michigan) is an assistant professor of public health at Cornell University. She is a political scientist studying the relationships between local politics, intergovernmental relations, and public health political decision-making. Dr. Willison’s 2021 book, Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States (Oxford University Press) examines why municipalities may use evidence-based approaches to address chronic homelessness or not. Her book won the 2022 Dennis Judd Best Book Award, which recognizes the best book on urban politics (domestic or international) published in the previous year.