Carl Rudolf Blankart is a researcher at the KPM Center for Public Management at the University of Bern and the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine (sitem-insel). He chairs the Economics Cluster at the University of Bern’s Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID). He holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin (Dipl.-Ing.) and a doctorate from the Universität Hamburg (Dr. rer. pol.). Prior to his appointment at the University of Bern, he held positions at the Universität Hamburg and was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Health Policy at Imperial College London and the Brown University School of Public Health in the US.

Dr. Blankart’s research is situated at the intersection of medicine, management, and law, and aims to improve the pathway from idea to patient. He focuses on regulatory and reimbursement frameworks for medicinal products and medical devices, exploring how these frameworks can improve health provision. Dr. Blankart is particularly passionate about translating research results into practice. To this end, he is involved with the Swiss Round Table on Antibiotics (president) and the Swiss Association for the Promotion of Self-Management (president). Dr. Blankart is also a member of the board of directors of Decomplix AG. In addition, he provides advisory services to private and public organizations on health policy and regulatory issues.

Jean Pierre's PhD revolves around health policy topics with a focus on exploring inequities in health systems. As a research fellow at the swiss institute of translational medicine (sitem-insel), Jean Pierre is also keen on the translational aspects of innovative medical technologies and has worked closely with both startups and established pharmaceutical companies by providing translational evidence like cost-effectiveness of new medical technologies. Jean Pierre has also worked at the UN where he contributed to labor policy at the ILO. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from HEC Lausanne, Université de Lausanne.

Joachim Marti is an Associate Professor of Health Economics and Co-Director of the Health Economics and Policy Unit at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté) at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. After completing a PhD in economics at the University of Neuchâtel, he pursued his research at Yale University as a postdoctoral fellow and then joined the University of Leeds and Imperial College London as a Lecturer. He develops research and teaching activities in empirical policy evaluation, health financing, behavioral health economics and economic evaluation. His current research interests include health equity, low-value care, new care and financing models, and the behavioral economics of food choice. He is actively involved in teaching activities at the undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and doctoral levels in Lausanne, as well as at the national level as co-chair of the SSPH+ Inter-University Graduate Campus and academic director of the doctoral program of the Swiss Society of Health Economics.