Gesine Meyer-Rath 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 of the School of Public Health of Boston University, US, and a Principal Researcher at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gesine’s research focus is on modelling methods for economic evaluation and translating research into recommendations for public policy, in particular for the HIV, TB and COVID-19 programmes of South Africa and other southern African countries. 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 & Tropical Medicine.

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