Julian Perelman holds a PhD in Economics from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He is currently associate professor at the Portuguese 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 80 publications in indexed scientific journals, mainly related to economic evaluation in health, socioeconomic determinants of health, and payment systems and incentives.