
Céline Aerts
Céline Aerts is a health economist and global health R&D policy specialist with a Ph.D. and over a decade of experience in economic evaluation and evidence-informed policy analysis. She is a senior analyst at Impact Global Health, where she co-leads the health and economic impact portfolio, producing analyses that quantify the health, societal, and economic returns of R&D investments and products.
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War in the Middle East will impact neglected disease R&D globally
about 20 hours ago // Opinion: Global Health
Conflict-driven oil price surges from the Iran war will raise biomedical R&D costs, threatening to translate directly into reduced research activity. This shock severely undermines the already fragile, underfunded global R&D pipeline for neglected diseases.