Natalia joined the Department of Global Health and Infection as a Senior Lecturer in Health economics in December 2017. Following completion of her PhD at Moscow State University in 1996, she received a Royal Society Fellowship to work in the UK (1997-1998) and subsequently undertook research at Würzburg University, Germany (1999-2005). In 2011 she completed an MSc in Health and Social Care Research at Sheffield University. Natalia gained her experience as a health economist by working on a range of clinical trials at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University (2008-2013), where she was also involved in pharmacoeconomic appraisals of new medicines for the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group. In 2013 she moved to the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Queen Mary University of London. As well as working on numerous trials within the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit she also provided methodological advice for Research Design Service London. In 2015 Natalia joined the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research as a Lecturer in Health Economics and undertook methodological research on developing core outcome sets for economic evaluation in asthma trials. While working at Queen Mary University of London she was involved in developing the Introduction to Health Economics Course within the Global Public Health undergraduate programme and delivering the problem-based learning courses for the MBBS students.