Maria Rohova has over 23 years of academic and research experience, specializing in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies across projects involving health professionals, experts, patients, and diverse communities. Her research portfolio spans health service provision, health system performance assessment, health policy analysis, child development and well-being, and family-specialist communication. As an Associate Professor at the Medical University – Varna and Head of the Training Sector of Health Management, Health and Drug Policy, she leads academic and applied research initiatives within the Health Economics and Management Department. Maria Rohova holds a PhD in Social Management, with her doctoral research focused on inequities in access to health services, and has received formal training in sustainable community development in Slovenia. Over the past decade, she has served as an expert, researcher, and supervisor on several projects for UNICEF—addressing home visiting services for families with young children, expanding health coverage for uninsured pregnant women, and improving physician-family communication on child immunisation—as well as for the World Health Organization, World Bank, and European Commission. In these roles, she has demonstrated expertise in research design, development of data collection tools, implementation of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, and the preparation and presentation of research findings.