Lorena Dini (MD, PhD, MScIH, HCM) is a Medical Doctor licensed in Spain and Uruguay, and has been based since 2008 at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where she established in 2015 the multiprofessional Working Group on Health Policy and Systems Research and Innovation (WG HPRSI) at the Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine. Her research focuses on implementation science, applying health policy and systems research to innovate healthcare systems for better health and care for all. Besides her research and teaching activities at Charité Berlin, she is a faculty member of the Economic Evaluation in Healthcare of the Maastricht University Course of the Open Medical Institute in Salzburg, Austria, and a Visiting Professor at the Kazakh National Medical University, Department of Health Management. Lorena Dini developed the field of translational health services research for public health professionals as part of her work for the European Public Health Association (EUPHA). In 2025, she was elected President of the Health Services Research Section (EUPHA-HSR) and appointed Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Public Health (EJPH). Further, she is Chair of the Working Group on International Health Services Research of the German Network for Healthcare Research (DNVF IHSR) and a Fellow of the Sciana – The Health Leaders Network.

Vera Araujo-Soares
Professor, Heidelberg University, Germany







