Health Economics and Big Data Analytics Major ENG

Vladimir (Vlad) Zah, Ph.D. brings 20+ years of Health Economics technology and business experience.  Since 2000, in various roles as Health Economist, Project Manager and Chief Investigator, Dr. Zah has implemented more than 170 health economic models and assessments in the phase 2, 3 and 4 settings, across various disease areas, which resulted in over 50 publications. He also consults and has provided HTA training relating to both medications and medical devices to Ministry of Health, National Insurance Funds or at national congresses in Russia, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Slovenia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Republic of Srpska, Japan and India. Vladimir Zah has organized and led Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) consensus seeking project among representative European countries (Poland, Ukraine, Greece, Austria and Serbia) to identify common set of criteria for: a) rare diseases, b) late stage oncology. This project lasted from 2016 through 2018 and resulted in common criteria presented firstly with pilot data (2016), secondly after adjustments with final data (2017) and with manuscript in production. In addition to, over the years, we have organized many HTA roundtable discussions among different country representatives. Thus, his main focus would be on supporting the consensus development aspects of the project: seeking HTA consensus, collaboration and effective implementation

Katarzyna Piotrowska, MA, is employed as an assistant in the Department of Quantitative Methods and Applications of Computer Science. Her research interests focus on social research methodology, risk taking, economic psychology and statistics. Co-author of the ALK Sustainable Development Index. In the years 2008-2009 she was an intern at the Nobody's Children Foundation. Statistical editor of POLISH SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW magazine (from 2015). Co-author of monographs, author of chapters in monographs and articles from JCR list. Active participant of national and international conferences.

Axel  Mühlbacher is a Professor of Health Economics and Health Care Management at Hochschule  Neubrandenbergand adjunct professor in the Duke Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University (USA). He is a CHPIR Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at the Duke Global Health Institute.He received his PhD in Economics from the Technical   University Berlin, and MSc in Business Administration from Eberhard-Karls Universitat (Tübingen). Past positions of Dr. Mühlbacher include assistant professor at Technische Universitat Berlin and research   fellow, German Coordinating Agency of Public Health, Albert-Ludwig Universitat Freiburg. He has also served on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Health as academic advisor to the steering committee, "Measures to create a new definition of 'requiring care,' and a new uniform instrument of evaluation" for the National Association of Statutory Health Funds.

Dr. Mühlbacher's research experience focuses on methodological advances in decision analysis, operations  research, econometrics and choice experiments and their application in the health domain. Recent work includes stated preferences research, empirical research to understand the behavioral  aspects  of  health and problems of multi-criteria decision making to inform the optimal design of policies and regulatory decision making. Dr. Mühlbacher has teaching experience in Health Economics, Health Economic Evaluation,Decision Making Theory, Evaluation of Health Care Innovations and Patient Preferences –Discrete choice experiments. Dr.Mühlbacher is a member of the International Health Economics Association, International Society for  Quality of Life  Research (Co-Chair SIG Preference Research), ISPOR Conjoint Analysis Experimental Design Good Research Practice Task Force. He currently also co-chairs the ISPOR Working Group stated preference in European healthcare decision making(Stated Preference Research in the European Union).

Ken Redekop, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Health Technology Assessment at the Institute for Medical   Technology Assessment, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is a clinical epidemiologist with more than 20 years of experience in observational research, clinical trial analysis, and medical technology assessment and an author of over 100 papers in the medical literature. Current studies include  early-stage cost-effectiveness analyses of medical devices and tests, RCT-based economic evaluations, economic evaluations in the Diagnostics Assessment programme of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE, UK) and outcomes research studies to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of expensive medicines in daily practice. Most studies relate to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, and most involve modelling and evidence synthesis.

Joanna Leśniowska, PhD - Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Economics and Health Care Management at KU. Her scientific interests include health economics and health care, macroeconomic policy, institutional economics, management in the health sector. She is a member of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics, and Outcomes Research and Western Economic Association International (from 2014), and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (from 2015). Author of publications in the field of economics in international journals (also with IF coefficient assigned). Active participant of the conference at the national and international level.