Prof Edina Sinanovic is a Professor and Head of the Health Economics Division in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town. She served as Director of the Health Economics Unit, and as Convener of the MPH Health Economics track. In 2016, she initiated and led the development of the new Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics.

She has qualifications in economics and health economics, and she has worked on economic evaluation of health care interventions since 1997. Current research primarily focuses on the evaluation of cost-effectiveness of alternative diagnostic and treatment interventions for TB and HIV, and new vaccine candidates. She has published widely in high impact journals and her work has directly influenced government policy. She is involved in a wide range of research activities, often in collaboration with other national and international research groups, including the Global Health Cost Consortium aiming to estimate and analyse HIV, TB and other health service costs globally.

She has served as a member of the WHO Immunization and Vaccines related Implementation Research Advisory Committee. She serves on the PTCMA Executive Committee.