Prof. Jaime Espín

Andalusian School of Public Health – Spain

Jaime Espín has a PhD in Economics (University of Granada), a Bachelor Degree in Law (University of Granada) and a Master in Health Economics (Andalusian School of Public Health). He has been Visiting Graduate Fellow in the Department of Economics in the University of California (UCSB); Visiting Professor in Duke University (Fuqua Business School), Columbia University (Mailman School of Public Health) and Harvard University (Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute); and Visiting Researcher in The University of Chicago.
Prof. Espín is an expert in European pharmaceutical policies and has been external advisor for the European Commission during the High Level Pharmaceutical Forum (Working Group on Pricing). He has been member of the Experts Committee on Pharmaceutical Policies of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), member of the Pricing Policy Group of the WHO/HAI Project on Medicines Prices and Availability and Expert of the WHO Guideline Panel on Country Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies. He has participated in several commissioned reports for the HTA Agency in Spain (AETSA).
He is co-author of the several European Commission publications as “Differences and Commonalities in pricing and reimbursement systems in Europe” and co-editor of the Pan America Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) publications as “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”.