Mihajlo Jakovljevic - Biography#

Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic M.D. Ph.D. MAE published аpprox. 300 papers in indexed, peer reviewed journals (Hirsch Factor 79; Citations Count ͌ 111,000+; Cumulative Impact Factor app. 2000+; i-10 index 211) out of whom vast majority he led in the capacity of Principal Investigator and/or Grant Holder (first, second, the last or corresponding authorship). Being a professional health economist and clinical pharmacology physician, his expertise focuses on Emerging Markets and sustainability of health financing across LMICs countries worldwide. In Editor-in-Chief capacity he leads prestigious, London based Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, BioMedCentral journal since 2019 (IF=2.3) and was Founding Specialty Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Health Economics, based in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2016-2021 mandate (IF=5.2). He also serves in Senior Editorial roles on behalf of twenty high-impact journals in the fields of Global Public Health and Health Economics.

Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic M.D., Ph.D. MAE is Professor and Founding Head of The Global Health, Economics and Policy Department at The University of Kragujevac situated in a historical capital of Serbia. His Centre’s output and its scientometrics have contributed essentially to the listing of his home University amongst the Top 200-300 Shanghai ARWY global specialty ranking in public health/clinical medicine 2019-2023. He holds a JSPS funded Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University Tokyo Japan. He is also an Expert affiliate of the CHTF IHME University of Washington since 2016 and used to hold a FORTE-funded Visiting Research Fellow position at Lund University, Sweden in the Division of Health Economics in 2018.

From a historical perspective, he established some of the oldest Pharmacoeconomics and Health Economics Curricula at large state-owned universities of Balkans. In 2014, acting as an Editor-in-Chief, he compiled and published the first complete university textbook of Health Economics in Western Balkan languages. Over the past two decades he has been a Principal Investigator - Grant holder of the largest budget-financed health economics Grant in Serbia (OI175014; budget 650,000 EUR; 2011-2023). For his achievements and professional standing, in 2015 he became the first-ever nominated candidate from Eastern Europe for IHEA (International Health Economics Association) Board of Directors Elections. Elected an Affiliate at the Academy of Medical Sciences Belgrade of The Serbian Medical Society (established 1872) he became the youngest member in Academy’s history. Over the past twenty years he has delivered plenary lectures and solicited speeches in well over thirty countries across Eurasia. During the past decade he continues to serve as Scientific Committee Member in top tier health economics and demography events such as IHEA, EuHEA, World Sustainability Forum. Since 2018 he continues as a WHO EACHR Committee member in an advisory capacity to the Cabinet of WHO Regional Director for Europe, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2021 he became first-ever Elected Ordinary Academician coming from Serbia, at the UNESCO World Academy of Sciences TWAS with its headquarters in Trieste, Italy. In 2022 he was elected to Full Membership within Academia Europea, London, UK as the first representative of Serbia Elected to the Section Clinical and Veterinary Medicine amongst almost 800 members.