Alexandre Lemgruber is currently the Acting Unit Chief, Access to Medicines and Health Technologies, and the Regional Advisor on Health Technology Assessment and Access, at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in Washington-DC. He holds his position as Advisor since July 2011, being responsible for providing technical support for the countries in areas such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Regulation of Medical Devices and Health Technology Management.
From 2003 to 2011, Mr. Lemgruber was the Head of the Office of Economic Evaluation of New Technologies, at the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA), where he was responsible for proposing a price regulation policy based on HTA. He was the founder of the Brazilian Bulletin of HTA (BRATS), a member of the National Commission of Health Technologies Incorporation, one of the Brazil’s representatives at the MERCOSUR HTA Commission and one of the rapporteurs of the Brazilian Policy of Health Technology Management.
Alexandre Lemgruber, a national of Brazil, holds a degree on Chemical Engineering, a Master’s degree on Public Policies and specialization degrees on Health Economics.