Panos Kanavos BSc, MSc (Oxon), MSc (LSE), PhD

Panos Kanavos (BSc, MSc (Oxon), MSc (LSE), Ph.D.) is Reader in International Health Policy in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics (LSE) and Programme Director of the Medical Technology Research Group (MTRG) at LSE Health. Panos is Visiting Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and also has a Visiting appointment with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has previously been a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy in the Dept of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School. Previous visiting appointments have included the University of Lausanne and the University of Delaware. He is an Economist by training, currently coordinates the Programme in International Health Policy at LSE, and teaches Health Economics, Pharmaceutical Economics, and Policy, Health Care Financing, and Health Systems Performance Measurement.

Panos leads the activities of MTRG, which is a research unit comprising 11 researchers within LSE Health and concentrates on interdisciplinary and comparative policy research on medical technologies.