Ilir Hoxha is a public health specialist and health services researcher with a longstanding interest in the role of health systems factors in the provision of health care. His research and professional interests have been associated with the effect of financial incentives and health financing structures in the provision of care, examination of barriers to access for care, quality of care assessment and the design of strategies and policies for health care improvements. More recently, Hoxha has been showing increasing interest in preventive medicine and the development of disease risk prediction models. Ilir has received a MD from the University of Prishtina, a MS in Health Systems Management from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD in Public Health from the University of Bern. He has completed a residency in public health at the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo. He has also been a Fulbright Research Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Ilir has teaching affiliations with Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Heimerer College in Prishtina. His research work has been published in the Obstetrics and Gynecology, BMJ Open, European Journal of Public Health and Health and Human Rights, and cited in the BMJ, NEJM and New York Times. In 2020 he founded Evidence Synthesis Group, a research group that is engaged in academic and applied research, primarily in the form of systematic reviews.