Editor-in-Chief

Dr Marjukka Mäkelä
FINOHTA (Finnish Office for Health Technology Assessment)
THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare)
P.O.Box 30
00271 Helsinki
Finland

Associate Editor

Dr Minna Kaila
Hjelt Institute University of Helsinki, Finland

Catherine Meads
Brunel University, UK

Editorial Board

Toni Ashton
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Professor Christel Bahtsevani
Malmö University, Sweden

Professor H. David Banta
University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Dr Jeremiah A. Barondess
New York Academy of Medicine, USA

Professor Renaldo N. Battista
University of Montreal, Canada

Professor Paul Blomqvist
The Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Dr John Bridges
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Professor James Brophy
McGill University, Canada

Dr Reinhard Busse
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Martin Buxton
Brunel University, London, UK

Dr Jie Chen
Fudan University, China

Dr. Irina Cleemput
Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Belgium

Professor Michael Drummond
University of York, UK

Dr Karen Facey
University of Glasgow, UK

Professor David Feeny
University of Alberta, Canada

Dr Pedro Gallo
University of Barcelona , Spain

Dr David Hailey
University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Akinori Hisashige
Institute of Healthcare Technology Assessment, Japan

Dr Pwee Keng Ho
Ministry of Health, Singapore

Dr Maarten J. IJzerman
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Professor Philip Jacobs
University of Alberta, Canada

Dr Bengt Jönsson
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Dr Gisele Kobelt
European Health Economics SAS, France

Dr Frédéric Lavoie
Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals, Canada

Dr Nguyen Hoang Long
Ministry of Health, Vietnam

Dr M. David Low
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

Professor Guy J. Maddern
Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Australia

Dr Sumit R. Majumdar
University of Alberta, Canada

Dr Deborah Marshall
Innovus Research, Inc., Canada

Ruairidh Milne
University of Southampton, UK

Dr Elias Mossialos
London School of Economics & Political Science, UK

Professor Duncan Neuhauser
Case Western Reserve University, USA

Professor Tom Noseworthy
University of Calgary, Canada

Dr Wija J. Oortwijn
ECORYS NL, The Netherlands

Dr Andy D. Oxman
Norwegian Knowledge Center for the Health Services, Norway

Dr James Raftery
University of Southhampton, UK

Dr John-Arne Rottingen
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services,Oslo, Norway

Dr Adolfo Rubinstein
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Argentina

Dr Laura Sampietro-Colom
Clinic Foundation, Spain

Professor Joshua Shemer
Israeli Center for Tech. Assessment in Health Care, Israel

Professor Uwe Siebert
UMIT, Austria

Harri Sintonen
University of Kuopio and FinOHTA, Finland

Dr Jane E. Sisk
Columbia University, New York, USA

Dr Ken Stein
Peninsula Medical School, UK

Dr Rod Taylor
University of Exeter , UK

Dr Sean Tunis
John Hopkins University, USA

Dr Gert Jan Van der Wilt
Amsterdam and Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Dr Milton C. Weinstein
Harvard School of Public Health, USA

Dr Bertrand Xerri
French National Agency for Health Saint Denis, France

Production and Manuscript Assistant

Terhi Ilonen

Founding Editors

Egon Jonsson
University of Alberta and Institute of Health Economics, Alberta, Canada

Professor Stanley J. Reiser
University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center, USA