Head of the Pharmacoeconomics Department
Head of WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies
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Mag. Dr. Sabine Vogler, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies, is head of the Pharmacoeconomics Department. She graduated in commerce from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and holds a PhD in social and economic sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. She is habilitated as Associate Professor for Economic Policy in line with the Italian National Scientific Habilitation regulation. Sabine Vogler is a senior health economist and pharmaceutical policy researcher with over 20 years of experience of surveying, comparing and evaluating pharmaceutical policies as well as measuring and analysing access, affordability and availability of medicines. She has in-depth knowledge on European countries with regard to pharmaceutical pricing / prices, reimbursement, procurement and distribution. Sabine Vogler coordinated numerous research projects at national and European levels, including the PPRI (Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Information) and the PHIS (Pharmaceutical Health Information System) projects. She was involved in the Expert Panels of the WHO Guidelines on Country Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies (panel member 2011 and co-chair of the Expert Panel in 2020). She is member of the Informal Advisory Group of the WHO Fair Pricing Forum and has been involved in the WHO Oslo Medicines Initiative. Furthermore, she is member of the board of the European Drug Utilisation Research Group (EuroDURG) and of the Austrian Health Economics Association (ATHEA). Sabine Vogler (co-) authored around 170 Austrian, European and international studies and reports, including peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. She is member of the Editorial Board of Pharmacoeconomics – Open and of the Generics and Biosimilars Initiative (GaBI) journal and of the International Advisory Board of the Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice (JOPPP) journal as well as Associate Editor of the Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice (JOPPP) journal, the Cost Effectiveness and Research Allocation (CERA) journal and of BMC Health System Research. In 2017, she was Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna (Italy). She has been lecturing at the Economics Department of the University of Bologna and at the Department of Health Care Management of the Berlin Technical University.