Elize Massard da Fonseca

Elize Massard da Fonseca is a member of theWorking Group on Trade and Access to Medicines at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and an Assistant Professor at the Sao Paulo Business School (EAESP/FGV), a leading public administration school in Brazil. She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh (UK, 2011) and a PhD in Public Health from the National School of Public Health (Brazil, 2008).

Her research spans social science, economics and public health, with a focus on the political economy of pharmaceutical regulation and health policies in Brazil.  She is currently working on (i) the emergence and consolidation of an ambitious set of policies to align health commitments with pharmaceutical industrial development in Brazil, and (ii) the political economy of pharmaceutical regulation in Latin America. She has also acted as a technical consultant for several United Nations agencies (UNODC, UNFPA, UN Women). She was a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and the University of Michigan.