People

Franco Sassi
Director

Professor Franco Sassi is Chair in International Health Policy and Economics and Director of the Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation at Imperial Business School. He is also a Senior Health Economist at the OECD (on leave).

Professor Sassi's research focuses on economic analysis of health services, the economics of chronic disease prevention and measuring inequalities in access to healthcare. He is Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator on the European Commission funded Horizon 2020 project Science & Technology in childhood Obesity Policy (STOP).

He is editor of Health Taxes: Policy and Practice (World Scientific, 2022), lead author and editor of several OECD publications and over 150 peer reviewed publications on the economics of chronic disease prevention.

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Jack Olney
Executive Director

Jack Olney is the Executive Director of the Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation at Imperial Business School, where he drives the Centre’s strategic vision, funding growth, and operational leadership. He plays a pivotal role in expanding the Centre’s influence within the Business School and beyond, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersection of health, economics, and policy.

Before joining the Business School, Jack earned a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Imperial College London. His doctoral research focused on developing advanced mathematical models of HIV dynamics to optimise investment strategies in resource-limited settings, as part of the Gates-funded HIV Modelling Consortium. His expertise lies in leveraging quantitative approaches to inform global health policy and drive impact at scale.

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