Judit SIMON MD, BA, BSc, MSc, DPhil, FFPH

Judit SIMON is Head of the Department of Health Economics, Deputy Head of the Center for Public Health and Coordinator of the Public Health Doctoral Programme at the Medical University of Vienna. She additionally holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Oxford and Corvinus University Budapest. Prior to her current appointments, she worked at UCL, LSE and the University of Oxford in the UK.

She holds an MD, a BSc in Economics and a BA in Medical Translation (University of Szeged), a MSc in Health Economics (University of York), and a DPhil in Public Health/Health Economics (University of Oxford). She is Fellow through Distinction of the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) and co-chairs the Faculty’s European Special Interest Group. She sits on the executive boards of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Austrian Health Economics Association (ATHEA), the Austrian Chapter of ISPOR and the Austrian Medical Society for Public Health and Public Health Service (ÖFGPHÖGD). Furthermore, she is scientific advisor to the Austrian National Public Health Institute (GÖG), Statistics Austria and the European Commission (ACPHE).

Her main expert areas include applied and methodological health economic evaluation research, health services and systems research, evidence synthesis and decision science focusing on the fields of mental health, public health, cancer, palliative care and nutrition. She has been principal/co-investigator on 26 grants with over 60 million Euros total funding. Among others, she has led a large European consortium on improving (mental) health economic evaluation methods (PECUNIA) with an ongoing pilot implementation of the new costing methods in Austria (STREAMLINE). Further ongoing works focus on child and adolescent mental health, optimized precision depression treatment and breast cancer screening, the economic and financial aspects of climate and mental health, and older age health economics. She has over 230 full-text publications, and is senior editor at BMJ Mental Health, BJPsych Open and Bipolar Disorders.

Publikationen

Teaching MedUni Vienna

Ongoing projects (PI/Co-I):

• SAMPO – Scalable Approach to Mental illness and self-harm Prevention Online (EC Horizon Europe, 2026-2030)
• LCCCMH - Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Climate Change and Mental Health (2025-2026)
• ViPP-ECO - Vienna Prevention Project-Health Economics (Stadt Wien, 2025- ) 
• PRADA - Prescribing the Right Agent for Depression in Adults (Wellcome Trust, 2024-2028)
• VABABS - Improvement and protection of women’s health at a population level by Value Based Breast Screening in Vienna (WWTF, 2023-2027)
• FLOURISH – Family-focused adolescent & lifelong health promotion (EC Horizon Europe, 2023-2026)
• STREAMLINE - Establishing a reference unit costs catalogue for the optimized evaluation and planning of mental healthcare in Vienna (WWTF, 2023-2026)
• ASCEnD - Aripiprazole/ sertraline combination: Clinical and cost-effectiveness in comparison with quetiapine for the treatment of bipolar depression. An open label randomised controlled trial (UK NIHR HTA, 2022-2028)