Usa Chaikledkaew received her bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy with the first class honour and was granted the Royal Thai Government Scholarship to pursue her master degree in Economics and Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy at the University of Southern California, USA. She has been actively working as an Assistant Professor responsible for providing supervision to both undergraduate and graduate pharmacy students to perform pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research as well as initiating and teaching the courses related to this field. Since 2006, she has been a research consultant as well as one of the founders who established the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP).