Prof. Dr. Mihajlo Jakovljevic

Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic MD, PhD, MAE is a Top-Notch expert in the Economics of Global Health and Sustainable Development of the Global South. This is witnessed with a 20 years long track record of service on behalf of various UN bodies and leading multilateral agencies such as UNESCO, WHO, GBD Project, European Commission, Swiss SNSF, Swiss HTA, Japanese JSPS, Irish Research Council etc. After a decade of service, due to his pivotal role in collective achievements, the Senior Leadership of University of Washington, has decided to offer him GBD Principal Collaborator appointment which is the top tier position in the entire Hierarchy of Global Burden of Disease Project worldwide.
As of 2018, by the decision of WHO Director Regional, he was appointed top-tier EACHR Committee Member with WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2021 he was elected UNESCO – TWAS Ordinary Fellow in the leading UN forum for Sustainable Development of the Global South. Academia Europaea, London, UK elected him 2022 as the first national representative to the Section Clinical and Veterinary Medicine composed of almost 800 members from all of the European continent.
He published almost 400 full-length papers in refereed journals (Cumulative Impact Factor 5,640+; app. 158,000+ citations, Hirsch factor 99, I-10 index 270, as of September 2025). So far he was holding Visiting / Affiliated positions at Hosei University Tokyo, (Institute for Comparative Economic Studies / Japanese National Center for Population Aging); CHTF IHME University of Washington, USA; Health Economics Department, Lund University, Sweden; Vienna Medical University, Austria, Ghent University, Belgium etc.
In Editor-in-Chief capacity he leads prestigious Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, BMC journal since 2019 (IF=2.5; Q2 Rank; 2025) and was Founding Specialty Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Health Economics, based in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2016-2021 mandate (IF=3.4; 2025).

Updated 3 December 2024