Vanesa Benkovic PhD

Vanesa Benkovic is Graduated music at the Catholic University of Zagreb, master's study LMHS at Medical Faculty Zagreb, and holds a Ph.D. in health inequalities at Sociology -Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb. Vanesa graduated a series of courses and educations in the field of pharmacoeconomics, health economics, and advanced modeling in HTA in France and Austria (European Society of Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics & Universität für Medizin und Technik). She received an Open Society scholarship at the European University of StPetersburg, Russia where she graduated with a three-year course in health economics. She teaches Pharmacoeconomics and Health Economics at the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy University of Zagreb, Research Methodology, Statistics and Market Research at Bernays School for Public Communications in Zagreb.

Her work includes an extensive list of health economic analysis and consultancy for drugs, devices, technologies in the CEE region and cost of illness studies (diabetes, malnutrition) as well as research and scientific board engagements for various EU projects (PaSQ, Registry of Registries PARENT, SMART CARE, CARSWELL, UrbanHealth Centers). Her engagements include health business intelligence consultancy on a World Bank project of public health care system integration, research project Performance on Health Systems in CEE. Vanesa publishes in the areas of sociology, public health, pharmacoeconomics, and health economics. Currently employed at Novartis.