Lieven Annemans
Professor
Health Economics
Ghent University
Belgium
Biography
Lieven Annemans is a Senior Full Professor of Health Economics at the medical faculty of Ghent University in Belgium. He is Past-President of ISPOR, the International Society for PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes Research, and was advisor to the Belgian Minister of Health. He has experience in health economic evaluations and health technology assessments (HTA) of medicines, medical devices and preventive health actions in various medical areas, and conducted >300 studies in over 20 countries. He is currently also active as an independent consultant in health economics and prior to his professorship he has also worked in the pharma industry. Prof. Annemans joined C.E.L.forpharma’s faculty in 2009. Since then he delivers the immensely popular course Health Economics for Non-Health-Economists and since 2014 also The HTA Course.
Research Interest
His main interests are epidemiological models, early-stage HTA, retrospective/ prospective health economic evaluations, and physician payment systems. He has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and provides lectures and trainings on health economic evaluations and HTA. He is the author of the book Health economics for non-economists: an introduction to the principles, methods and pitfalls of health economic evaluations (Academia Press; 2008).
