Dr. Nadia Yakhelef is a distinguished health economist with strong expertise in public health, health economics, international cooperation, and monitoring & evaluation. She holds a PhD in Health Economics from the Centre de Recherche sur le Développement International (CERDI-CNRS), France, with summa cum laude honors. Nadia has played a pivotal role in the health sector, notably at Expertise France, where she developed key performance indicators and monitoring tools for the agency’s health department and led the deployment of COVID-19 crisis management platforms across French-speaking African countries.
Her professional journey includes substantial contributions to global health organizations, such as conducting cost-effectiveness evaluations for health technologies with Doctors Without Borders and providing health economic expertise to WHO on human resources in West Africa. She has also worked with SOLTHIS, where she developed tools for viral load cost analysis, validated by UNITAID.
Nadia has a strong academic background, including a Diploma in Epidemiology from the Institute of Public Health, Bordeaux, France, and a Digital Diploma in Infectious Diseases from the Pasteur Institute. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications that have informed global health policies, particularly regarding tuberculosis and HIV management. Fluent in French and English, she is also proficient in advanced data analysis and software, contributing to her ability to optimize public health programs internationally.