Elias Mossialos
	- Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care

Elias Mossialos is Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care and Brian Abel-Smith Reader in Health Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is one of the Research Directors of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems ( www.observatory.dk ), a partnership of WHO, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Governments of Greece, Norway and Spain, the Open Society Institute, the LSE and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

He has served as an advisor to several agencies including WHO, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the World Bank, Ministries of Health and Social Affairs in Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Greece, Russia, Slovenia and Sweden and health insurance funds in Hungary and Croatia. He is a member of the management board of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency, sits on the International Advisory Board of the A. Stampar School of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia and is also a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Technology Assessment in Health Care Unit (Centre of Public Affairs Studies, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration). He has contributed to the work of the International Forum on ‘Common access to health care services’ co-ordinated by the health ministers of Sweden, United Kingdom and New Zealand. (view >>)

His research interests are in health policy relating to health care systems. Currently, his particular focus is comparative health policy, addressing questions related to funding health care, cost-containment, pharmaceutical policies, private health insurance and the impact of EU law on health care systems.

Selected Publications
1. Mossialos E., McKee M. The influence of EU Law on the social character of health care systems. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2002.

2. McKee M., Mossialos E., Baeten R. (eds.) The impact of EU law on health care systems. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2002.

3. Mossialos E. Palm W. The European Court of Justice and the Free Movement of Patients in the European union. International Social security Review 2003;56(2):3-29

4. Mrazek M., Mossialos E. Stimulating pharmaceutical research and development for neglected diseases. Health Policy 2003;64(1):75-88

5. Mossialos E., Thomson S. Access to health care in the European Union. In Gulliford M. and Morgan M. (eds.) Access to health care, London: Rutledge, 2003.

6. Bhatia M., Mossialos E. Health Systems in Developing Countries. In Hall A. and Midgley J. (Eds.) Social Policy for Development, London: Sage, 2003.

7. Mossialos E., Dixon A., Figueras J. and Kutzin,J (Eds) Funding health care: Options for Europe. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2002 (Winner of the 2002 European Health Management Association’s Baxter Award, Commended: BMA 2002 Book Competition).

8. Saltman R., Busse R., Mossialos E. (Eds) Regulating entrepreneurial behaviour in health care markets. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2002.

9. Mossialos E., Le Grand J. (Eds), Health care and cost containment in the EU, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999.

10. Mossialos E. Mrazek M. The regulation of pharmacists in six countries. London: Office for Fair Trading, 2003.

11. Mossialos E., Thomson S. Voluntary Health Insurance in the EU: a critical assessment. International Journal of Health Services 2002;32(1):19-88.

12. Thomson S., Pitman D., Mossialos E. (2001) Protecting individual rights in the interest of the wider community: the implications of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 for clinical practice and resource allocation in the NHS. Clinical Medicine;1(6):464-9.

13. Kassuf A., McKee M., Mossialos E. Early entrance to the job market and its effect on adult health. Health Policy and Planning 2001;16(1):21-28

14. Mrazek M., Mossialos E. Increasing demand while decreasing costs of generic medicines, The Lancet 2000;356(9244):1784-85

15. Mossialos E., Dixon A., McKee M. Paying for the NHS, BMJ 2000;320:197-198.

16. Dixon A., Mossialos E. Has the Portuguese NHS achieved its objectives of equity and efficiency? International Social Security Review 2000;53(4):49-78.

17. Mossialos E., King D. Citizens and Rationing: Analysis of a European Survey. Health Policy 1999; 49(1):75-135.

18. Kanavos P., Mossialos E. International comparisons of health care expenditures: what we know and what we do not. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 1999; 4(2):122-126.