Manuela De Allegri has a diverse academic training in Sociology, Health Economics, and Public Health. She joined the Institute of Global Health of the University of Heidelberg in 2002 and was appointed Leader of the Research Group in Health Economics and Health Financing in March 2011. Her areas of expertise include health financing, impact and process evaluation, and economic evaluation, with specific application to social health protection and provider payment mechanisms. Her research focus ranges from maternal, newborn, and child care to chronic non-communicable diseases, including mental health. A focus on vulnerable populations and equity permeates all of her work.

Thit Thit Aye is a trained medical doctor holding a Master of Science in International Health from the University of Heidelberg. She is a research associate and a doctoral candidate at the Health Economics and Health Financing Research Unit, joining the team at Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) in November 2020. Her research areas include health financing policies, maternal and child health, health workforce migration, impact evaluation, and economic evaluation.

Hoa Thi Nguyen is a post-doc researcher in health economics and health financing at HIGH. Her works centres around assessing value for money of complex interventions to inform resource allocation decisions and scale-up in the real-world conditions. Hoa’s areas of research cover health financing policies, woman and child health, diagnostic solutions and mental health care.

Yu-Rou Tsai works as a research assistant of the economic evaluation work package within the Advance Project. She is a trained medical doctor from Taiwan with two years of clinical experience in a tertiary hospital. She then completed her studies in International Health in Heidelberg and conducted a cost-descriptive study of medications for mental disorders for her master’s thesis. Her primary research interest is mental health, specifically focusing on the right of patients with mental disorders to access mental healthcare.