Diana Szivakova, MA

Diana Szivakova joined AIHTA in March 2025. Her main research interests are pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical innovations. As part of the work conducted for the Austrian appraisal board for high-cost and specialized hospital medicines, her focus is on the economic aspects of new therapies. In addition, she currently leads the horizon scanning project.

She holds a master’s degree in health management from the Management Center Innsbruck and a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from the University of Bologna (IT). In addition, she spent a semester at the faculty of medicine at the University of Oslo (NO), specializing in economic evaluation in healthcare. Her master’s thesis focused on the attitudes of Slovakian women toward breast cancer screening modalities. Before joining AIHTA, she gained valuable experience during traineeships at the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (European Commission) and the National Institute for Value and Technologies in Healthcare (SK).

Memberships:

• BeNeLuxA initiative- Health Technology Assessment Domain Task Force