Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer is the head of the  Unit on Economic Evaluation and Analysis under the Department of Health systems governance and financing (HGF) in Geneva, Switzerland. For more than 20 years, she has been primarily responsible for leading the work on defining the cost-effectiveness of  health interventions (WHO-CHOICE) and the costs of scaling up and reaching health goals and targets. Ongoing work revolves around, among others, fair resource allocation, priority setting and health technology assessment. Tessa is also currently Director (acting) of the HGF Department.

Kabir Sheikh is Policy Advisor at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, where he oversees the Alliance’s scientific and policy work. Kabir has 20 years experience as a health systems researcher and planner working to strengthen evidence-informed health systems in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Australia. Prior to joining the Alliance in 2018, he was Joint Director for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), and Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Dr Sheikh is co-author of the Alliance’s flagship report on Learning Health Systems.

Andrew Mirelman holds a PhD and MPH from the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a Technical Officer at the World Health Organization in the HGF department, working on a range of issues related to economic evaluation and health technology assessment. Andrew has also worked on developing methods for using economic evaluation to address equity concerns and for estimating opportunity cost thresholds. He was previously a Research Fellow in the Global Health Economics group at the University of York’s Centre for Health Economics.

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai is leading the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, a part of the Ministry of Public Health in Thailand. She is also an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, in Canada. She has experience conducting economic evaluations using various methods with specific interest in the potential of big data in health economics and health technology assessment to support evidence generation and policy-making process. She is dedicated to the creation and use of evidence in healthcare decision making.

Pete Baker is a Policy Fellow and Assistant Director on the global health policy team at the Center for Global Development, and the Deputy Director of CGD’s international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI). He is a public health specialist doctor, Fellow of the UK's Faculty of Public Health and member of NICE Technical Appraisal Committee A, which advises the NHS on resource allocation decisions. His interest is in the evidence, methods, criteria, and institutions needed for prioritisation of health care. Prior to that, he has worked across sub-Saharan Africa and for a range of organisations. Pete holds medical degree, an MSc in Health Policy Planning and Finance and a BSc in International Health.

Regis Hitimana is a Health Economist with a bachelor degree in Business administration and experience in national health policy and in Research. He's currently Deputy Director General in charge of Benefits at the Rwanda Social Security Board since May 2020. Regis started his career in Project Management for NGOs. He later saved as a Specialist in charge of Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation at the Rwanda Ministry of Health. Prior to that, he was a Lecturer at University of Rwanda’s School of Public Health. Regis also holds a MSc. in Epidemiology from University of Rwanda and PhD in Health Economics from Umeå University, Sweden. 

El Houcine Akhnif holds a PhD in public health as well as different diplomas in health policy and universal health coverage, social protection, medical health coverage and statistical modeling. Houcine is currently program manager at the WHO Morocco Country Office in charge of UHC and health financing.  He previously worked in the national health system for 20 years and as a consultant in Africa and America. He has published several papers on learning health systems.

Jo Keatinge is a general medical physician with a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and a Masters in public health in developing countries. Since April 2016, she has been working for the UK Department of International Development – now Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, as a Health Advisor, managing the Health Systems Strengthening and UHC policy areas. Previously Jo worked for 18 years in Africa in a range of roles including: senior paediatrician in Uganda, senior HIV specialist in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique and senior health advisor with Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and USAID in Zimbabwe.

Bruno Meessen is an economist (M.A, PhD). He joined the  Health Systems Governance and Financing Department at WHO Geneva in 2020, after a 20-year long academic career. Bruno has a passion for knowledge management and peer-to-peer learning. He has authored several papers on learning health systems.