Allira Attwill

Allira has an MSc. Health Policy, Planning and Financing from London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a BSc., Population Health and Marketing from the University of Wollongong (Australia). She has been with Policy Wisdom since 2014, and is a Project Director for Europe and Asia Pacific regions.

Allira has six years’ experience at WHO, including as a: (1) Project Lead to develop a Medicines Policy Course for high level policymakers in the WHO's EURO Region. (2) Health financing and governance specialist on Joint TB, HIV and viral Hepatitis (JTH) Programme Team (3) Lead Health Economist on JTH Team as part of in-country missions to assess ‘graduation progress’ and transition plans from Global Fund- to domestically-financed National TB Programmes in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine; (4) Health Economist on EPI project to assist countries 'graduating' from Gavi-financed to Government-financed National Immunization Programmes; (5) Consultant Health Financing Specialist and Editor on the WHO Migration and Health Programme; (6) Health Economist at WHO’s Representation to the European Commission, where she authored a case study using the rotavirus vaccines and their approval on the national immunization calendar in Belgium as an example, examining the impact of budgetary silos in health systems, and the importance of considering such silos in Health Technology Assessments and the recommendations made by HTA agencies; (7) Health Economist at WHO’s Representation to the European Commission, working on the Research Agenda for Health Economic Evaluations and developing information for EU MPs to guide policy decisions.

Prior to her positions at WHO and Policy Wisdom, Allira held several sales and marketing roles at consumer health and pharmaceutical companies, including Colgate-Palmolive and Pierre Fabre Laboratories in the UK and Mylan Pharmaceuticals in Australia. She also held roles in the local government in Australia, where she conducted a Housing Needs Assessment and a Needs Analysis for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders for which she successfully obtained AUD$30M in government funding for social and affordable housing projects.

Allira has co/authored eleven chapters, methodologies and reports for the WHO and published three public health policy-related opinion pieces for The Lowy Institute Australia (as of April 2019). She has special interests in health system efficiency, health equity and bringing together stakeholders with disparate agendas.