Julian Perelman holds a PhD in Economics from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He is currently full professor at the Nova National School of Public Health (NOVA University of Lisbon), and Vice-President of the Portuguese Commission for Health Technology Evaluation (CATS). He coordinated the Mission Framework for the Sustainability of the Health Budget Program (Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance), from 2018 to 2020. He authored more than 100 publications in indexed scientific journals and one book; he was the first author of the Portuguese guidelines for economic evaluation of health technologies (published in 2019). His research interest lies at the frontier between health economics and public health, with research related to health lifestyle and its socioeconomic determinants, inequalities in health and access to health, the role of economic incentives on healthcare providers, and economic evaluation of health interventions, technologies, and policies.