Professor Mihajlo Jakovljevic

Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, Tama Campus, Tokyo, Japan

Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic M.D. Ph.D. MAE published аpprox. 300 papers in indexed, peer reviewed journals (Hirsch Factor 62; Citations Count ͌ 66,800+; Cumulative Impact Factor app. 2000+; i-10 index 165). 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 Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, BMC journal since 2019 (IF=2.532) and was Founding Specialty Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Health Economics, based in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2016-2021 mandate (IF=3.709).
He is Professor and Founding Head of The Global Health, Economics and Policy Department at The University of Kragujevac situated in the historical capital of Serbia. 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.
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. 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 November 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 June 2022 he was elected to Full Membership within Academia Europea, London, UK.

Updated 4 March 2024