Company Position Country
The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy & Research Researcher Austria
Session
Looking ahead to Silver care market access strategy and regulatory constraints: How to ensure their early integration in the R&D projects’ development?

Christian Boehler, PhD, MSc

Christian Boehler works as a health economist at the United Nations’ affiliated European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna, Austria. He has years of experience in the economic evaluation of innovative health and care technologies, and his main research interests relate to the economics of eHealth as well as active and healthy ageing.  Between 2013 and 2015, he was the principal investigator of the MAFEIP project at the European Commissions‘ Joint Research Centre (DG-JRC-IPTS) in Seville (Spain), where he developed a Monitoring and Assessment Framework for the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA).

 Christian completed his PhD in health economics at Brunel Universities’ Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in London, and obtained a MSc in Health Economics from the University of York, UK. He is a honorary lecturer at the University of Sheffield, School of Health & Related Research/Health Economics and Decision Sciences, and he worked as an external consultant towards the NICE Single Technology Appraisal Programme. He also acquired previous industry experience working for consultancies based in London and Budapest, focussing on health economics and public health issues in the context of middle income European economies.