Elias Mossialos
Professor of Health Policy, Department of Social Policy
London School of Economics and Political Science
Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy, and Director of LSE Health. His research interests focus on health policy relating to health care systems. His particular focus is comparative health policy, addressing questions related to funding health care, pharmaceutical policies, private health insurance and the impact of EU law on health care systems. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH), and of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and Honorary Consultant in Public Health with the South East London NHS Strategic Health Authority. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen.
Elias was originally trained as a medical doctor before switching to political science and health economics. In 1998, he co-founded the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a partnership of WHO, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Governments of Belgium, Finland, Norway, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, the Open Society Institute, CRP-Santé in Luxembourg, the LSE and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is currently Co-Director of the Observatory.
Elias Mossialos co-edits an Open University Press book series on health care systems, and is co-editor in chief of Health Economics, Policy and Law, a journal published by Cambridge University Press. In 1995 he founded Eurohealth, a quarterly journal of health policy that covers the middle ground between academic scholarship and policy-making. He was the 2002 recipient of the Baxter award from the European Health Management Association for the best publication in health policy and management in Europe.
He has served as an advisor to several agencies including World Health Organization, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the World Bank, the Office of Fair Trading, Ministries of Health and Social Affairs in Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Sweden and health insurance funds in Austria, Croatia, Hungary and South Korea. He has been a member of the management board of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (2000-2003) and has contributed to the work of the International Forum on 'Common access to health care services' co-ordinated by the health ministers of Sweden, UK and New Zealand.