Solène Jouan

European Patients' Forum

Solène Jouan is a Policy Officer at the European Patients‘ Forum. In her role, she is responsible for EPF’s policy and advocacy work on the revision of EU pharmaceutical legislation, the work of the policy team on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as well as on universal access to healthcare and shortages. She is in charge of monitoring policy developments, drafting position papers, conducting background research, chairing EPF’s Universal Access Working Group and engaging with external stakeholders and members on EU health issues linked to those topics.

Before joining EPF, she worked for EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe, contributing to European and international policy development for people living with rare diseases.

She started her career working at the Human Rights Action Unit of the European Parliament monitoring the situation of former Sakharov Prize Laureates and following developments in the area of human rights. She then joined a health policy consultancy in Brussels, where she was involved on a variety of EU health policy files, including cancers, rare diseases, digital health and non-communicable diseases.

Solène is a jurist and holds a double bachelor’s degree in law and Languages (English-Chinese) from the University of Grenoble and a Master’s degree in EU law from the ULB University of Brussels and the Faculty of Law of Strasbourg.