Health Economics & Pharmacoeconomics, The Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia.

Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic M.D., Ph.D. is a distinguished European Health Economist affiliated to the University of Kragujevac, Serbia. He was holding Visiting Research or Teaching positions at Hosei University Tokyo, Japan; Vienna Medical University, Austria; Ghent University, Belgium and Ljubljana University, Slovenia. He is frequent speaker in the field, across Europe and Asia, having published 85+ full length peer reviewed papers in indexed, high impact journals (450+ citations; H index 12; i10-index 18). His scholarly work appeared in European Journal of Health Economics, Value in Health, Plos One, Expert Reviews in Pharmacoeconomics, Journal of Medical Economics, Frontiers in Pharmacology and top ranked clinical journals. Professor Jakovljevic currently serves on behalf of Editorial Boards of twelve distinguished international journals. For his deeds and professional standing he was the only nominated candidate for IHEA (International Health Economics Association) Board of Directors spring 2015 Elections, based in Eastern Europe. His long term focus of interest remains on health financing and affordability issues in the emerging global markets.