Snapshot
Experience
15+ years
Languages
English, Spanish
Countries of Work
Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Republic of, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, United States of America
Professional Experience
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Ministry of Health, Mexico
May 2013 - Jan 2019• Defined and coordinated the external evaluation of 18 strategic health programs, including feedback from main results for improving their design and operation
• Coordinated and developed 6 Annual and Semiannual National Health Reports
• Monitored nearly 50 results indicators for assessing the Mexican health system performance, including the Mexican 2030 Agenda for Health and Well-Being indicators, the PAHO Strategic Plan Indicators, and the OECD quality indicators
• Coordinated and developed of the National Health Program 2013-2018.
• Coordinated and developed three national health policies, including a Universal National Health Coverage proposal
•Fostered partnership with the OECD -
Ministry of Social Development
Mar 2009 - Sep 2011• Coordinated and developed the Strategic Plan of the Human Development Oportunidades (PDHO) Program covering nearly 30 million poor people in Mexico
• Designed, piloted and implemented the targeting model for identifying eligible families for the PDHO in urban areas
• Defined and coordinated the evaluation agenda of PDHO, 2009-2012
• Defined and coordinated the external evaluation of 11 key PDHO components, including feedback from main results for improving the design and operation of its nutrition, health, education and financing literacy policies -
Ministry of Health, Mexico
Jul 2001 - Feb 2009• Designed and implemented the pilot study of Seguro Popular in five Mexican states between 2001 and 2002
• Coordinated strategies and action lines of the Ministry of Health agencies involved in the implementation of Seguro Popular, a national public health insurance now covering nearly half of the Mexican population
• Monitored the strategic programs coordinated by the Ministry of Health, including Seguro Popular and coordinated a qualitative field evaluation of Seguro Popular in 2006 in the 8 states of higher coverage
Education
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Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Graduated 2002PhD, Public Policy and Health -
Harvard School of Public Health
Graduated 1997MSc, International Health -
ITAM
Graduated 1994BSc, Political Science and Economics
Publications
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Public health matters: why is Latin America struggling against the COVID-19
Published Jan 2021 View publication -
Loss of job-related right to healthcare associated with employment turnover
Published Jun 2018 View publication -
The Mexican experience in monitoring and evaluation of public policies addressing SDH
Published Feb 2016 View publication -
Addressing SDH through intersectoral actions: five public policy cases from Mexico
Published Jun 2013 View publication -
Evaluation for program decision making: a case study of the Oportunidades program in Mexico.
Published Sep 2011 View publication
Areas of Expertise
- General
- Priority-setting
- Domestic resource mobilization
- Earmarked taxes
- Health coverage schemes
- Pay for performance
- Pooling of funds
- Resource allocation
- Strategic health purchasing
- Decentralization
- Health management, policy and planning
- Institutional strengthening
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Regulation and enforcement
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strategic planning
- Strategy development
- Data reporting and analysis
- Health management information systems
- Health-related surveys
- Interoperability of information systems
- Behavior and health literacy
- Health promotion
- Health protection
- Data collection methodology
- Indicator development
- Performance management plans
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Research
- Results and logical frameworks
- Costing
- Equity analysis
- Health provider capacity mapping
- Policy analysis
- Political economy analysis
- Problems and priorities assessment
- Root cause analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- PHC
- Quality and quality assurance
- Service delivery networks
- Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
- Media engagement
- Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
Affiliations
Joint Learning Network (JLN) for Universal Health Coverage