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Judit Simon MD, BA, BSc, MSc, DPhil, FFPH

Professor of Health Economics

Professor of Health Economics at the Medical University of Vienna

Coordinator Doctoral Programme Public Health

e-mail: judit.simon@meduniwien.ac.at

Judit SIMON is Head of the Department of Health Economics, Deputy Head of the Center for Public Health and Coordinator of the Public Health Doctoral Programme at the Medical University of Vienna. She additionally holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Oxford and Corvinus University Budapest. Prior to her current appointments, she worked at UCL, LSE and the University of Oxford in the UK.

She holds an MD, a BSc in Economics and a BA in Medical Translation (University of Szeged), a MSc in Health Economics (University of York), and a DPhil in Public Health/Health Economics (University of Oxford). She is Fellow through Distinction of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) and co-chairs the Faculty’s European Special Interest Group. She sits on the executive boards of the Austrian Health Economics Association (ATHEA), the Austrian Chapter of ISPOR and the Austrian Medical Society for Public Health and Public Health Service (ÖFGPHÖGD). Furthermore, she is scientific advisor to the Austrian National Public Health Institute (GÖG), Statistics Austria and the European Commission (ACPHE).

Her main expert areas include applied and methodological health economic evaluation research, health services and systems research, evidence synthesis and decision science focusing on the fields of mental health, public health, cancer, palliative care and nutrition. She has been principal/co-investigator on 23 grants with over 39 million Euros funding. Among others, she has led a large European consortium on improving (mental) health economic evaluation methods (PECUNIA) with an ongoing pilot implementation of the new costing methods in Austria (STREAMLINE). She has over 190 full-text publications, and is senior editor at BMJ Mental Health, BJPsych Open and Bipolar Disorders.