Zisis Konstantinos

Konstantinos Zisis is a health economist and policy analyst by training. He studied Health Management & Health Policy and Planning. Currently, he is PhD candidate in health technology assessment (HTA) at the Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, investigating the role and feasibility of real-world data (RWD) for HTA process.

He has many years of experience in the private health sector (health services), as well as in research institutions in regards to health policy and economics, while he has also collaborated with governmental agencies in public health (ECDC) and education (Hellenic Authority for Higher Education). Today, he is working as Country Approval Associate in clinical trials industry and particularly for Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Konstantinos focuses his research in the fields of economic evaluation in healthcare, evidence-based healthcare and HTA having published several papers and abstracts in health policy and economics, and is regular reviewer for international journals such as Value in Health and International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. He is a member of Hellenic Society for Health Economics and Policy and scientific associate of Institute for Health Economics while he received scholarship for the completion of his postgraduate studies by the Hellenic Society for the Management of Health Services (ΕΛΕΔΥΠΥ).

PhD Thesis title: Real-world data (RWD) in Health Technology Assessment: barriers, challenges, applicability and opportunities

Objective: to investigate the integration of real-world data into the health technology assessment process.