Joan Rovira Forns

Associate professor at the Andalusian School of Public Health and emeritus professor in the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Barcelona, Joan worked as a consultant for Ecuador's Ministry of Public Health as well as for the following countries: Moldova, Romania, Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Brazil, and Mexico. He has served as a consultant and advisor for public and private organizations both nationally and internationally, including WHO, PAHO, IDB, OECD, UNIDO, the European Commission, Farmaindustria, the Catalan Department of Health, the Spanish health ministry's Directorate-General for Pharmacy and Health Products, as well as working with the industry. Joan was the research director of SOIKOS SL (Centre for Studies in Health Economics and Social Policy) between 1988 and 2006. From June 2001 to June 2004, he worked as a senior health economist for medicines in the World Bank's Human Development Department, where he was responsible for promoting the definition of a World Bank strategy on medicines, coordinating the Bank's activities with other organizations, international bodies, and advising regions on issues related to pharmaceutical policy. He was president of the Spanish Health Economics Association (1987-1989) and a member of the ISPOR Steering Committee (2000-2002). He has researched and published on topics related to health economics, economic evaluation in healthcare programs, priority definition, disease costs, pharmaceutical market regulation, medicine prices, and the impact of intellectual property rights on access to drugs. He is editor emeritus of the Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation journal and a member of the PharmacoEconomics editorial board. Joan holds a doctoral degree in economic sciences.