Unisanté meets Biopôle

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Services and in particular Health Economics, Clinical Research Support Services and Biobanking Services. During this session, we will have the pleasure of welcoming three speakers: • Professor Joachim Marti, PhD - Assessing Value in Healthcare: Our Work in HTA and Economic Evaluation • Anne Niquille, PhD - Unisanté's Research Support: helping our researchers make a greater impact • Sandrine Estoppey Younes - MSC - Unisanté Biobank - a plateform for scientific collaborations and services - our domains & expertise Speaker 1: Joachim Marti Joachim Marti is Associate Professor of Health Economics at the University of Lausanne and Co-Head of the Health Economics and Policy Sector at Unisanté. His work uses health economics to evaluate healthcare interventions and policies, with a particular interest in value, equity, and how evidence can inform better healthcare decisions. Speaker 2: Anne Niquille Anne Niquille holds a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences. Alongside her role as Deputy Chief Pharmacist at Unisanté, she is co-head of the Research Support Unit, which helps research teams plan, conduct and complete their projects to high-quality standards. She co-leads a team dedicated to making research at Unisanté smoother, more rigorous and more impactful, for researchers and the wider community alike. Speaker 3: Sandrine Estoppey Sandrine Estoppey is a biologist and the operational manager of the Unisanté Biobank. She advises on the design, implementation, and management of clinical and population studies involving biological samples, from collection to distribution and valorisation. She promotes the long-term scientific use of biosamples and associated data by fostering collaborations that extend the impact of projects beyond their original scope, generating new research opportunities. Unisanté is a university center for general medicine and public health, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The institution covers the entire healthcare chain, from primary care, care for vulnerable populations and occupational medicine, to health promotion and prevention, organization of the healthcare system, research and university teaching. Its aim is to maintain and improve the health of the regional population. It employs around a thousand people, including some fifty faculty members attached to the University of Lausanne. Every year, Unisanté publishes over 400 articles in scientific journals and holds around 500,000 patient consultations.