Federico Augustovski MD, MSc, PhD

Federico Augustovski, MD, MSc, PhD, is the current director of Health Economic Evaluations and Technology Assessment at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), an independent non-profit organization affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires, a CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) center, and one of the few INAHTA Health Technology Assessments agencies in Latin America. Federico is the director of the WHO Collaborating Centre in Health Technology Assessment and Economic Evaluations at IECS. He is also the founding editor-in-chief for Latin America section of Value in Health Regional Issues, the ISPOR peer-reviewed journal for Latin America, Asia, and Central & Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Africa. He is the director of the PAHO affiliated PROVAC Center of Excellence for decision making in vaccines.

Federico leads a multidisciplinary team devoted to clinical and economic evaluations of new and existing preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic technologies that provides research, education, and technical support with public and private health decision makers in Latin America. He is a professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health of the University of Buenos Aires, where he teaches courses for graduate and postgraduate students in Decision Sciences; Patient-Reported Outcomes Development in Health, as well as Health Economic Evaluations.

Federico earned his MD with honors at the University of Buenos Aires and is a specialist in family medicine. He practiced family medicine and was a staff physician for more than 20 years at the Family and Community Medicine Division of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. He received his MSc in epidemiology (Harvard School of Public Health). He was a European Union Scholar in health economics at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York in the UK. His research production concentrates in health technology assessments and health economic evaluations methods and applications. He has published more than 70 PubMed-indexed papers.

Federico has served and serves ISPOR in several capacities during the past 10 years. Among other commitments, he was the first Latin American director on the board of directors, the founder and first president of the Argentine local chapter, the first chair of the Latin American Consortium, chair of the Research Excellence Award, president of Buenos Aires 2013 Regional meeting, member of the Health Science and Policy Council and Vision 2020 teams, as well as several Task Forces.