Mikael Svensson
I am a health economist and professor at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. My research focuses on economic evaluation in healthcare and public health, health technology assessment, and healthcare policy topics.
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Current Research Projects
Reproducible Cost-Effectiveness Models
Can we trust health economic evaluations of new pharmaceuticals? This Forte-funded project examines the reproducibility of pharmacoeconomic models and investigates the impact of researcher degrees of freedom in cost-effectiveness analyses of cancer drugs.
Learn more →The Evidence-Base and Value of Cancer Drugs
Evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence used in reimbursement decisions for new cancer drugs in Sweden. This project examines how surrogate endpoints and limited trial data impact drug pricing and healthcare costs.
Learn more →MedPREP
The focus of MedPREP is on strengthening health system resilience through enhancing the robustness of medical preparedness - particularly the availability, production, and governance of critical pharmaceuticals.
Learn more →Research Team
Ben Harvey
Post-Doc
Daniel Pouragheli
PhD Student
Thomas Lane
Research Assistant
Pedro Serra da Silva
Research Assistant
Phan Thuy Nhien Nguyen
Master's Student
Most Recent Publications
Sumaya Abuloha, Amie Goodin, Tianze Jiao, Manuela Corti and Mikael Svensson
Clinical Drug Investigation, 2026: in press.
Melissa Miri, Sumaya Abuloha, Shu Niu, Alaa Alshehri, Ben Harvey and Mikael Svensson
Journal of Cancer Policy, 2026: 48: 100723.
Sumaya Abuloha, Ben Harvey, Shu Niu, Alaa Alshehri, Melissa Miri, Katherine Clifford, James Chambers and Mikael Svensson
Health Affairs Scholar, 2025: 3: qxaf051.
Shu Niu, Dawei Guan, Lizheng Shi, Vivian Fonseca, Mikael Svensson, Mohammed Ali, Yan Sun, Xin Hu, Chang Su, Carl Yang and Hui Shao
Value in Health, 2025: 28: 762-768.
For a complete list of publications organized by topic, please visit my publications page or Google Scholar profile.
Teaching
Courses
Spring 2026 I teach a Ph.D. level course on Health Economic Evaluation Methods and co-ordinate the Master's of Public Health Thesis course.
Teaching Material
My textbook on economic evaluation in healthcare (Studentlitteratur, in Swedish).