Michele Cecchini leads the work on public health at the OECD – the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Working at the intersection of health and economics, Michele’s team focuses on priority setting and programme evaluation of policies affecting population health, helping countries implement better public health policies for better lives.
The results of this work have fed into relevant policy-making activities at various levels, from national policy-making to intergovernmental dialogue at the G7, G20 and UN General Assembly high-level events on public health.
Michele’s work has also appeared in major academic journals such as the Lancet and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Michele is an Adjunct Professor of Applied Health Economics at the School of Public Health, University of Siena, and has held a visiting position at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. Michele is a medical doctor specialised in public health and holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD from Imperial College London.
