Heidelberg University Hospital  (UKHD)

Stefan Listl is Professor of Translational Health Economics and Director of the Oral Health Section at Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. He also is Adjunct Professor at Radboud University (Netherlands) and the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Stefan has been Principal Investigator on several research grants, supported by funding organizations such as the EU and NIH. Stefan currently serves as coordinating PI for the Horizon Europe projects DELIVER (Deliberative Improvement of Oral Care Quality) and PRUDENT (Prioritization, Incentives and Resource Use for Sustainable Dentistry). He also coordinates the German Innovation Fund project DigIn2Perio which seeks to enhance the integration of oral health in primary care. Stefan is a member of the WHO Working Group for Prioritization of Cost-Efficient Oral Health Interventions and previously served on the Steering Committee for WHO’s Global Oral Health Status Report. He is a member of the Lancet Oral Health Commission and the Lancet Commission on the European Health Union. Stefan contributed to the FDI World Dental Federation Vision 2030 Report, the World Economic Forum White Paper on Oral Health, the NIH Report on Oral Health in America, and Harvard University’s Malaysia Health Systems Project.

Federico Zilio is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University and Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, University of Melbourne (Australia). He received his PhD from the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex (the United Kingdom). After achieving the PhD, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge and as a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne. Dr Zilio has extensive experience using surveys and administrative data to study the effects on employment, consumption and income from risky events such as ill-health, unemployment or natural disasters. He also uses econometric techniques to evaluate the effects of policies such as the minimum wage, cash transfers and oral care financing reforms in various European countries. His current projects focus on the intergenerational transmission of oral health diseases and the factors that generate inequalities in dental care access.

Demetrio Lamloum is a dentist, a health economist, and a PhD Candidate at the University of Bern. He holds a Master’s degree in International Healthcare Management, Economics and Policy from Bocconi University in Milan. His academic appointments include serving as a contract professor at the University of Pavia and collaborating with the Oral Health Group at the Heidelberg Institute for Global Health. An active consultant in global oral health for two NGOs, he oversees projects in Italy, the Central African Republic, and Burundi. Previously, he consulted with the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) on the DICTORNA project in Sudan to strengthen oral health services at the primary care level and with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and he served as Principial Investigator for the North American Observatory on Health System and Policies (NAO) and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. He also serves as a technical advisor for the SDJ Association (Association valaisanne pour la prophylaxie et les soins dentaires à la jeunesse) in Valais, Switzerland. His research and practice focus on the economic evaluation of primary prevention interventions, health policy analysis, and capacity building in both high- and low-income countries.