Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Development; Professor of Practice in Global Health, Imperial College London

Kalipso Chalkidou is the Director of Global Health Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, as well as a Professor of Practice in Global Health at Imperial College London. Previously, she was the Director of Global Health and Development Group at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, helping governments build technical and institutional capacity for improving the value for money of their healthcare investment. She is interested in how local information, local expertise, and local institutions can drive scientific and legitimate healthcare resource allocation decisions whilst improving patient outcomes.

She has been involved in the Chinese rural health reform and also in national health reform projects in the USA, India, Colombia, Turkey and the Middle East, working with the World Bank, PAHO, DFID and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as national governments. Between 2008 and 2016 she founded and ran NICE International, a non-profit group within the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).