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CHD Board
The Board of CHD is composed of four distinguished and experienced Global Health, Health Aid, Child Development, and Health Systems Transformations professionals with extensive hands-on experience in managing systems transformations, large scale health aid programs, child development, and non-for-profit support programs globally.
As a non-for-profit organization, the CHD Board leads the overall mission and direction of CHD, approves its budget and program and appoints and evaluates its Executive Director. Dr. Cristian C. Baeza MPH is currently the Chair of the Board and CHD full time Executive Director appointed by the Board for the period 2016 to 2019. |
Board Member Bios
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Cristian C. Baeza MD MPH. Chair and Executive Director of the Center for Healthy Development (CHD). Dr. Baeza serves also as the Principal Advisor to the Inter-American Conference for Social Security (CISS) and is a Professor (LoA) of Global Health at the University of Washington, Seattle USA. Former Director of the Health, Nutrition and Populations Practice of the World Bank globally in Washington DC; former CEO of the National Health Insurance Fund (FONASA) in Santiago Chile; former Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the STEP program of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Washington DC USA and Geneva Switzerland; and former Partner of McKinsey leading the Health Systems practice in emerging markets from Rome, Italy and from Washington DC, USA.
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Cecilia Breinbauer MD MPH Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Deputy Director of the Center for Healthy Development (CHD). Renowned specialist in early child development, autism and children with developmental disabilities. Clinical assistant professor of global child mental health at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Senior Fellow of the RISE Institute. Former CEO of the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) in Washington DC, USA.
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Nicole Klingen MSc-MBA. Board member of CHD, Ms. Nicole Klingen is Country Program Coordinator for Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan at the World Bank Group. Previously, she was Practice Manager, Strategy and Operations for the Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice at the World Bank Group (WBG). Ms. Klingen is an economist with more than 20 years of experience in international development at the World Bank working in more than 49 countries in development and in Health. Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Klingen was a Sr. Product Manager at Beiersdorf in Switzerland.
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Thomas Pellathy MSc. USA national, Board Member of CHD. Current, Senior Partner at
Mckinsey and Company. Formerly Senior Vice President of Product, Network & Reimbursement for Highmark Health, a diversified health care company serving 50 million Americans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Former Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked with leading public and private healthcare companies in Europe, Latin America, and the United States on health systems transformations and health care value creation, leading the Latin America region in the Emerging Markets practice. |
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Evangeline Javier MSc. Board member of CHD. Social Sectors Economist. Former World Bank
Sector Director for Health, Education, and Social Protection for Latin America and the Caribbean; former Sector Manager for Health, Nutrition and Population for Latin America and the Caribbean; former Senior Economist for Human Development in the Africa Region. Former Assistant Director for Economic Planning and Research, NEDA, Philippines. Currently Global Technical Advisor on Health for the Cartwheel Foundation International; a member of the Health Committee of Pro Mujer ; and a member of the Board of Directors of Next Horizons. |