Jaime Espín

Jaime Espín is a professor at the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP) [Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP)*], where his teaching focuses on price policies, reimbursement of medicines, and the economic evaluation of health technologies. He also coordinates research and consulting projects in health economics, economic evaluation, and pharmaceutical policies. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at prestigious universities including the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Harvard University. His professional career has focused on economic evaluation and the study of pharmaceutical policies, mainly European, having served as an independent external advisor to the European Commission at the Pharmaceutical Forum, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank. He has been a member of the Experts Committee on Pharmaceutical Policies of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and a member of the Pricing Policy Group of the WHO Project on Medicine Prices and Availability. He has more than 100 publications, including those published by PAHO, “The access to high-cost medicines in the Americas” and “Guideline for implementing generic strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean as a mechanism to improve access to medicines”. Most notably, Dr. Espín was co-author of the European Commission publication “Differences and commonalities in pricing and reimbursement systems in Europe”. Jaime Espín has a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Granada, a master's degree in health economics and health services management from the Andalusian School of Public Health, and a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Granada.