Paying for Health: Learning from International Experience in Health Financing

Rebecca Forman is a Technical Officer at the European Observatory’s London hub. Her work focuses on health financing, priority-setting, and health systems and policies. She has held previous roles at LSE Health and the Center for Global Development and has consulted for and worked with organizations including the World Bank, WHO, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and more. Rebecca also is an Editorial Board Member of the journal, Health Policy. Rebecca holds a BA from Brown University and a joint MSc from the LSE and LSHTM.

Nathan Shuftan is a Research Fellow at the Berlin University of Technology, the Berlin hub of the European Observatory. He focuses on European health system and policy developments through projects like the State of Health in the EU, the Health Systems and Transition (HiT) series and policy.

Elias Mossialos is the Cheng Yu Tung Chair in Global Health and Director of LSE Health. With over 300 publications in top journals in the public policy, health policy, economics and political science fields, his primary research focus revolves around health systems and policy, with a particular emphasis on issues related to healthcare financing, accessibility, pharmaceutical policies, and cancer care and policy. He co-founded the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, has served in Greece as a Member of Parliament and as Minister of State, advised global organizations, and he currently holds the position of senior fellow to the Ministry of health in Singapore. Professor Mossialos has received numerous awards, including the 2010 Andrija Stampar Medal, the 2021 Choice Award by the ACRL, the 2022 Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award and more.

Peter C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College and Emeritus Professor of Health Economics at the University of York. A mathematics graduate from Oxford, he started his academic career at the University of Cambridge and was Director of the Centre for Health Economics at York. At Imperial, he co-directed the Centre for Health Policy. His research focused on public service performance, particularly health care, publishing over 180 journal papers and 14 books. His recent work addressed global health, universal health coverage, and the economy-health system link. Peter has held numerous UK advisory roles and advised international organizations like WHO, IMF, and the World Bank.