Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy, Head of the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of LSE Health. He is also Professor of Health Policy and Management at Imperial College London and Co-Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. In 2010 he was awarded the Andrija Stampar medal by the Association of Schools of Public Health in Europe for outstanding contributions to European public health. He received the 2002 and 2007 Baxter Awards from the European Health Management Association for the best publication in health policy and management in Europe. In 2009, under his directorship, LSE Health was honoured with the biennial Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. He has been profiled in both the Lancet and BMJ. Elias is currently chairing the Lancet Commission on the future of the UK NHS and is a member of the Lancet Commission on Primary Care in China.
