Josephine Borghi is Principal Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, leading the Social Cohesion, Health and Wellbeing research group. She is also Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Jo has many years experience evaluating health financing reforms in low and middle income countries in Africa and Latin America, including insurance and cash-based coverage mechanisms for the informal sector, and payment for performance schemes to improve quality and coverage of care. Jo also led the financing workstream of the Countdown2030 involving tracking aid flows to Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and analysing health financing equity and efficiency at the subnational levels. Virginia Wiseman is Professor of Health Economics and Health Systems at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney and at the Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has 24 years' experience evaluating public health policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Designing fair and equitable health financing systems to protect people from catastrophic and impoverishing health care spending has been a key focus of her research. Virginia is co editor-in-chief of the journal, Health Policy and Planning and in 2024 was voted President-elect of the International Health Economics Association (IHEA).
Virginia leads the Australian Centre for Stronger Investments in Infectious Diseases (STRIDE). Daniel Maceira is Professor at the Economics Department, National University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES), and Director of the MBA-Health of the University of San Andrés. He has also developed teaching activities in several Postgraduate Programs in Health Economics and Public Health Policy in Argentina and the Latin American Region. He has more than 25 year's research experience in health financing in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly in out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditure analysis, provider payment mechanisms and contracting, health program evaluation, equity and financial access to health services for disadvantage groups (aging, adolescents, original population), as well as comparative health care systems and pharmaceuticals. Between 2016 and 2024 he was a Board Member and Chair for the Americas of Health Systems Global, the international society in health systems research. Daniel is currently Chief Editor of the International Journal for Equity in Health. Shankar Prinja is a Professor of Health Economics at the PGI Chandigarh. His research interests include methodological and applied research on methods of costing and cost-effectiveness analysis, as well as evaluation of health financing policies.
He has contributed to various important methodological guidelines of India's HTA agency. He has formerly served as the Executive Director at India's National Health Authority. At the NHA, he was responsible for designing policies for health benefit package, pricing, and quality assurance of India's national insurance scheme - Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PMJAY), as well as set up the Health Financing and Technology Assessment unit.