Professor Gesine Meyer-Rath

Professor Gesine Meyer-Rath, MD, PhD, is a medical doctor and health economist working on the economics of infectious disease interventions in low- and middle-income settings. She is a Research Associate Professor in the Department for Global Health, Boston University, United States of America, and works at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), a collaboration between Boston University and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been resident in South Africa since 2006, and joined HE2RO in 2009. Her research focus lies on modeling methods for economic evaluation and translating research into recommendations for public policy. Most of her work has centered on providing recommendations and budgets based on economic analysis for the South African HIV programme, including a well-used budget impact model for ART, the National ART Cost Model, work on optimising HIV testing modalities and prevention interventions, and leading the modelling work on the South African HIV Investment Case. Since March 2020 she has been part of the National Covid-19 Modelling Consortium for which she has modelled the cost and budget impact of Covid-19 related interventions, including vaccination. She is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters on HIV economics. She holds an MD/PhD from Humboldt University and Free University, Berlin, Germany, and a PhD in Health Economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.