Sarah thomson

Senior Health Financing Specialist at the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing

Sarah Thomson is a Senior Health Financing Specialist at the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing, where she leads a multi-country study looking at whether people in Europe can afford to pay for health care. Before moving to Barcelona in 2013, Sarah was Associate Professor in Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Deputy Director of LSE Health and Head of the LSE Hub of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. From 2013 to 2016, Sarah was a member of the European Commission’s Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health.