Michele Cecchini

Michele Cecchini (MD, DrPH, PhD) is responsible for the OECD programme of work on Public Health including work on preventing unhealthy lifestyles and major risk factors; tackling emerging communicable diseases, with a focus on antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19; and assessing and providing advice on reforms to improve public health systems. His research interests include priority setting and programme evaluation of policies influencing population health, in particular concerning the health and economic assessment of public health policies across different sectors. He is the author and editor of a large number of publications on the economics of public health, including the OECD books “Stemming the Superbug Tide - Just A Few Dollars More” (2018), "The Heavy Burden of Obesity: The Economics of Prevention" (2019) and “Preventing harmful alcohol use” (2021). Michele’s work also features in key academic journals such as the Lancet and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Michele represents OECD in the board of the Global AMR R&D Hub – a G20 initiative to promote R&D of new antimicrobials, diagnostics and vaccines – and holds a position of adjunct professor in applied health economics at the School of Public Health of the University of Siena. Previously, he held a visiting position at the Health Services & Systems Research Centre of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore and served as a temporary advisor to a number of government and international agencies, including WHO, IARC, EC and the World Bank.