Elizabeth Pisani

Elizabeth Pisani is a Professor at King's College London's School of Global Affairs, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, with additional affiliations at The George Institute for Global Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Universitas Pancasila. She leads significant research on medicine quality, particularly focusing on substandard and falsified medicines in global health contexts.

Her research interests span medicine quality assessment, pharmaceutical policy, global health systems, and medicine pricing with particular emphasis on resource-constrained settings. Dr. Pisani's work bridges public health research with practical policy applications, especially in Southeast Asia.

Analysis of her recent publications shows a consistent focus on pharmaceutical quality in Indonesia, with methodological innovations in field survey techniques, laboratory testing protocols, and epidemiological approaches to measuring medicine quality. Her work increasingly incorporates economic analyses of medicine pricing and accessibility.

• COVID-19 may expand the market for substandard and fake medicines (2020)
• Conducting randomised field surveys of medicine quality using mystery shoppers (2023)
• Are quality medicines affordable? Evidence from Indonesia (2025)

Dr. Pisani has developed practical tools for medicine quality assessment and leads the STARmeds research project, which has produced numerous methodological guides and toolkits for researchers and policymakers working in pharmaceutical quality assurance.