Thomas Allvin
Executive Director for Strategy and Healthcare Systems at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
He has served other major multilateral organizations such as the European Commission and the World Bank. He has served as policy advisor in more than forty countries within the European region and beyond. He is a member of several governing, advisory and editorial boards including member of the board of the European Health Forum Gastein. He is honorary fellow of the UK faculty of public health medicine; received the Andrija Stampar Medal for excellence in Public Health and a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Semmelweis University and has twice been awarded the EHMA prize. He is currently visiting professor at Imperial College, and external examiner at London, Maastricht and Cork Universities. He was director of the MSc in Health Services Management and lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
His research focuses on comparative health system and policy analysis and is editor of the European Observatory series published by Open University Press. He has published a wide range of publications in this field including Economics of Healthy Ageing (2018), Health Systems Governance (2017) Economic crisis: impact and implications for health systems policy in Europe (2014) Health systems, health and wealth: assessing the case for investing in health systems (2012) Health professional mobility and health systems in the EU (2011) and Cross border health care in the EU (2011).
Executive Director for Strategy and Healthcare Systems at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
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Special Advisor, EPF
Patient Engagement Liaison, European Medicines Agency
EUPATI Director of communications and advocacy
Chief Executive Officer of the US National Health Council
Professor of Innovation and Communication in the health and life Sciences
Director-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Global Head, Patient Engagement Leader, Janssen
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Senior Health Economist, Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre
Clinical Director for Personalised Care, NHS England
Patient Representative (ePAG), ReCONNECT
Health Policy Analyst, OECD
Special Advisor, European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC),
Medical Student, Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam
Head of European Affairs for the European Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS)
Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Health Policy Analyst, OECD
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Cand. Mag. Comm., consultant, user background Unit for Co-Creation Aalborg University Hospital, Psychiatry
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Patient representative
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Chaired Professor of Innovation Management & Value in Health at the University of Paris Medical School.
Executive Director, EPF
Chief Patient Officer and Head of Patient Engagement, LEO Pharma
Independent, freelance consultant
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Senior Advisor at the Regional Ministry of Health and Families of Andalusia (Spain)
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EUPATI coordinator, EPF
Patient Representative, Ireland
Patient Representative, Ireland
Deputy Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Executive Director, for the Centre for Empowering People and Communities
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EU Patient Engagement Lead, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD)
Senior Fellow, Friends of Europe
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Expert at the National Institute of Public Health in Slovenia
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Interim Chief Executive, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), UK
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Young Patient Activist
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