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.

Since 2012, member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and member of the Health Care Committee. Head of the Urological Clinic of the SZU FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica, the main expert of the Ministry of Health of the SR for urology. For many years he worked in the management of FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica (deputy for LPS, director). The main center of interest is innovation, robotic surgery (head of the Center for Robotic Surgery in Banská Bystrica) and transplant medicine (head of the Transplantation Center at FNsP FDR Banská Bystrica).