Dr. Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea

Director of Health Research and Innovation at the Ministry for Health of the Basque Government

Iñaki Gutierrez-Ibarluzea has a degree in Fundamental Biology and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of the Basque Country. University Specialist in Clinical Epidemiology from the Andalusian School of Public Health and the University of Granada and Master in Bioethics from the Ramon Llul University and the Borja Institute of Bioethics and a Master on Health Innovation Management from the University of Nebrija (Madrid) and Idival.

He is the Director of Health Research and Innovation at the Ministry for Health of the Basque Government since September 2024. He was previously the Head of Knowledge Management and Evaluation of BIOEF, the Basque Foundation for Health Innovation and Research, past-President of the international society HTAi (2019-2021) and the President of EuroScan/iHTS, the international network for the identification and early assessment of technologies in their life cycle since 2020

Iñaki has collaborated in the implementation of HTA initiatives in different countries including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, Costa Rica, Ghana, Vietnam, Mexico, South Africa, Tunisia, Norway, Israel, USA, Malaysia, Ukraine and Italy (Early Warning System), among others. He has also collaborated with the regional offices of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Middle East (EMRO), Asia Pacific (WPRO) and Latin America (PAHO). WHO Consultant Expert for the Assessment of Emerging Health Technologies and Medical Devices. He is author of more than 90 peer reviewed articles, 80 HTA reports, 5 monographs and 7 book chapters and associated editor of journals such as IJTAHC, HiNT, Frontiers in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research or European Journal of Public Health. He is co-chairing the organization of EUPHA Bilbao 2026.