Oriana Ciani is Associate Professor of Practice, Public Management and Policy Area, Health Economics and HTA at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Her research interests focus on methodological aspects of Health Technology Assessment (HTA),
evidence synthesis and surrogate endpoints validation. She has led the development of CONSORT and SPIRIT extensions for RCTs with surrogate endpoints (MRC CONSORT-SPIRIT). Oriana is currently PI for the three-year HORIZON Europe HI-PRIX project (no. 101095593), on innovative pricing and payment schemes for
health technologies. In 2020 Oriana is Fulbright Research Scholar at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health. Oriana is Associate Editor of Value in Health. For her research activity she has received the Egon Jonsson Award (2016), the Bocconi Research Award (2023), the Exeter Impact Award (2013), Best Student Podium Presentation Award at the ISPOR Conference in Dublin (2013), the AIES Young Researcher Award (2010).

Rod Taylor is Professor of Population Health Research and co-Director of Centre for Excellence in Trials Collaboration, University of Glasgow; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences – National Institute of Public Health and Department of Psychology, University of South Denmark.
He has published over 500 peer review articles the field of health services research and has an H-index of 125 and i10-index 416. Rod’s main research interests and expertise include cardiovascular secondary prevention/rehabilitation trials: REACH-HFpEF Trial, PERFORM trial, ACROSS trial and trial methodology. He is currently leading the development of CONSORT and SPIRIT extensions for RCTs with surrogate endpoints (MRC CONSORT-SPIRIT) and he is member of the Strategy Committee of the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Trial Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP). He is the Director for the Cardiac Rehabilitation Cochrane Review Centre (CochraneCardiacRehabCentre).
His postgraduate qualifications include PhD Clinical Physiology (Glasgow), MSc in Medical Statistics (London) and Postgrad. Dip. Health Economics (Aberdeen).
His postgraduate qualifications include PhD Clinical Physiology (Glasgow), MSc in Medical Statistics (London) and Postgrad. Dip. Health Economics (Aberdeen).

Anthony Manyara is a Research Associate and Epidemiologist at the Global Health and Ageing Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow. His research interests include surrogate endpoints use and reporting, evidence synthesis, noncommunicable disease prevention and control. He is a member of the MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership Surrogate Endpoints subgroup. Anthony coordinated the development of the SPIRIT and CONSORT extensions for reporting trials using surrogate endpoints as a postdoctoral researcher and is keen to see the extensions implemented to improve trial reporting, reduce research waste, and better patient care and population health.

Ray Harris is retired from a career in various statistical roles, mostly in the pharmaceutical industry. He worked across all stages of drug development. He is an honorary member of PSI and a Chartered Statistician. He continues to use his experience in a variety of volunteer roles. He is a lay member of an ethics committee and an expert member of the Oxford Primary Care Hosted Research Datasets Independent Scientific Committee. He is a PPI member in a number of groups. He has found that years of asking questions as a non-clinical member of a research team transitions very well to asking questions from a patient and public interest point of view.

Mario Ouwens is group director in medical and statistical evidence statistics at AstraZeneca. He is co-leading the ISPOR surrogacy taskforce and has participated in the development of the CONSORT and SPIRIT extensions.