TSAG Bios
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Technical and Strategy Advisory GroupThe Technical and Strategy Advisory Group (TSAG) is composed of a distinctive group of health policy, health systems, health economics, gender equity, and public health experts from around the world. They support the mission of CHD, provide technical and strategy advice for the overall mission and specific work of CHD and, depending on project specifics, they may choose to directly participate and/or lead CHD projects and work streams.
TSAG is currently chaired by Mrs. Evangeline Javier MSc, a national of the Philippines, Economist, former Director of Health, Education, and Social Protection at the World Bank |
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Armin Fidler MD MPH. Austrian national, Vice- Chair of the Technical and Strategy Advisory Group of the Center for Healthy Development (CHD). Currently Senior Lecturer and Member of the Faculty at the Management Center Innsbruck, European Master in Health Economics and Management (EU-HEM) and Adjunct Faculty, School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington D.C. USA. Former Lead Advisor Health Policy and Strategy and Sector Manager for Health Nutrition and Population for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank.
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Pedro Crocco MD MSc. Chilean National. Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health of the University of Chile. Formerly Director General of Health Provider Networks, Director General of Public Health, and Director General of Health District at the Ministry of Health of Chile; former Senior Advisor at the Ministry of the Presidency in the Chilean Government; former Senior Advisor on Health Systems at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington DC, USA; former Regional STEP advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Labor Organization.
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Paolo De Santis PhD. Italian national. Macroeconomist currently Group Head of Accident and Health Strategy and Business Development of Generali Insurance Group. Former McKinsey partner leading Health System and services in the Mediterranean and North African region working in more than 20 countries. Founder of two medical start ups and previously Head of Staff of the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Italy.
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Pietro Ferraro MSc MBA. Italian National. Currently Executive Director for International Collaboration at NewYork-Presbyterian, responsible for NYP’s collaborations related to education, research and clinical operations worldwide. Former Associate Partner and Senior Expert with McKinsey & Co., with focus on health systems strategy, and health reforms, healthcare financing, in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America.
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Lisa Fleisher PhD. USA national. Currently Associate Director for Health Systems Solutions at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Former Technical Advisor, Global Health Initiative at The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, DC, USA; Senior Policy Associate, Global Policy Team at ONE, Washington, DC , USA; Senior Analyst, Health Systems 20/20 Project Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD, USA; Senior consultant to the the World Bank and USAID on Health Systems Financing and on Policy translation
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John (Jack) Langenbrunner PhD. USA national. Renowned health economist, currently Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Former Lead Health Economist for the World Bank where he led the Health Financing and Health Insurance Thematic Group within the Bank, and led the Bank’s Global Expert Team for Health Financing and Health Systems; former advisor at the US Office of Management and Budget where he served on the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force for the US White House, and former senior economist at the US Health Care Financing Administration, a public health insurance program for over 90 million beneficiaries..
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Rony Lenz MSc. Chilean national. Renowned health economist, Director of REBSOL, and Empresa TI Salud, Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health at the University of Chile, Chile. Former CEO of the Chilean National Health Insurance Fund (FONASA), Former Director General of Planing and Financing of the Ministry of Health of Chile; former CFO Integramédica S.A., the largest private outpatient care network in Chile, former president of the Chilean chapter of the International Society for Pharmaeconomics and Outcome Research (ISPOR), former president of "Rehabilitemos" Foundation.
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Rafael Lozano MD MSc. Mexican national. Adjunto Director General of the Center for Health Systems Research of National Institute of Health of Mexico and Professor of Global Health of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation of the University of Washington, USA. Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico. Renowned researcher in global burden of disease and epidemiology. Former Director General of Health information at the National Ministry of Health of Mexico, former Associate professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at Harvard University , and former Senior Advisor at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Marco Antonio Nuñez MD PhD. Chilean national. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Chilean Congress. Representative and President of the Health Committee of the Chilean Congress; President of the Chilean-USA inter-parlamentarian Group; former consultant for the World Bank and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on social protection in health, health systems, and health financing.
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Martin Sabignoso DrJ MSc. Argentinean national. Currently Senior Adviser to the Inter-American Development Bank on Health Systems and Results Based Financing and Adjunct Professor for Master Public Health program at Buenos Aires University and leader of the Health Communication program at the School of Journalism and Social Communication at the National University of La Plata . Former CEO of Plan Sumar and Plan Nacer in Argentina, one of the most successful result based financing programs in health in the world.
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Peter Speyer MSc MBA. German national. Global Head of Real World Evidence Solutions at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland. Former Chief Data and Technology Officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations, University of Washington, Seattle, former Director of Products Management at Corbis, Seattle, USA; former strategy consultant and manager at the Bertelsmann group in Gütersloh and Cologne, Germany
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Juan Pablo Uribe MD MPH MPA. Colombian national. Currently Director General (CEO) of Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, a leading not-for-profit health organization in Colombia. Former Vice Minister of Health for Colombia; former World Bank´s Health Sector Manager for East Asia and the Pacific, based in Washington D.C; and former National Director of Public Health at the Colombian Ministry of Health(1994). He has been board member of various public and private organizations in Colombia and internationally, health sector consultant for various organizations and invited speaker at numerous international conferences.
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