Prof. Dr. Veronika Josefa Wirtz

Dr. Veronika J. Wirtz is a professor of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, where she is also the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy. Between 2014 and 2016, she was the Co-Chair and lead author of The Lancet Commission report Essential Medicines for Universal Health Coverage and is currently the Co-Chair of The Lancet Commission Accelerating Progress on Essential Medicines. She is a visiting professor at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), Mexico, where she was a faculty member between 2005 and 2012. Dr. Wirtz received her training as a pharmacist from Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany and her Master of Science degree and her doctorate degree from the University of London, UK.