MUDr. Tomáš Szalay, PhD. is a founding partner, senior analyst and executive director of the Health Policy Institute. In the 2023 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and is a member of the NC SR Committee for Health Care. Since 2018, he has been working as a doctor in the Bratislava self-governing region. He studied medicine and from 1996 to 2002 worked as an editor and moderator of TV Markíza. In the period 2002-2004, he was a member of Rudolf Zajac's reform team at the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. He deals with health policy, the availability of health care and health legislation.