Ariel Beresniak


Ariel Beresniak is a Swiss specialist in Public Health and Health Economics, author of reference books and scientific articles in modeling and decision-making analyses.

Biography

Beresniak is a physician specialized in Public Health from the Faculty of Medicine at University of Marseille, France. He also obtained a master's degree in Economics and a PhD in applied mathematics in Economics at the Claude-Bernard University, and an Accreditation to Supervise Research. Beresniak was Head of Health Economics for Glaxo-Wellcome and Global Head of Pharmacoeconomics for Serono International. Since 2005, Beresniak is CEO of . He has been short-term consultant for the World Health Organization and the European commission in the fields of Public health and Health Economics.

Scientific contribution

Beresniak is author of the reference book "Health Economics" published in French and Portuguese. He publishes two dictionaries: one dictionary of Health Economics published in French and Spanish, and one dictionary of terms used in health industries published in French. Beresniak is also coauthor of "Understanding Pharmacoeconomics" published in French and "Pharmacoeconomics" published in Japanese. Beresniak is known to have led the project, a European Commission funded research, establishing that the QALY indicator is not scientifically validated to be used in Decision making and could lead to divergent results with the same dataset. These findings have generated an international controversy because the QALY indicator is still currently promoted as reference case by some national health technology assessment agencies such as the in the UK.
Beresniak is also project leader of the project, a European Commission funded research, with the objective to compare cost-effectiveness of various public health interventions against human pandemic influenza.