Improving Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Appendix B: Participant Biographies
Pages 95-108
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Agins has applied his experience in the field of HIV quality improvement to the international setting, directing HEALTHQUAL International, which is supported through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
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He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and from 2006–2013, he was a professor of international health management at Imperial College London. Between 2008 and 2012, he was a member of the Executive Management Team of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Switzerland as the director of the Strategy, Performance and Evaluation Cluster.
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Barker initially served at IHI as in-country director of IHI's South Africa projects and then as head of IHI programs in low- and middle-income countries. He retains a position of clinical professor of pediatrics in the Maternal and Child Health Department at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
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He also serves now as lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., is a medical doctor, with an official medical specialty in public health (Spain)
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Dr. Cordero is a highly experienced trainer and has worked in more than 37 countries facilitating the introduction and dissemination of new family planning technologies, especially long-acting reversible methods and permanent methods; the development of training manuals, job aides and curricula; the development and implementation of national norms and standards in contraception and reproductive health; and the introduction of maternity care technologies and approaches that improve service quality.
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Heiby's work has focused on adapting modern quality improvement approaches from industrialized countries for use in the health systems of low- and middle-income countries. He has developed and managed a series of 5-year projects, including the current USAID ASSIST Project, which works in more than 20 countries.
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His work has focused on a broad set of issues, including transparency and public reporting of provider performance, financial incentives, health information technology, and leadership, and the roles they play in fixing health care delivery systems. Edward Kelley, Ph.D., is director for the Department of Service Delivery and Safety at the World Health Organization.
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His present commitments include a visiting professorship at the Corvinus University in Budapest, advisor to the WHO/Europe, advisor to the Canadian Institute for Health Informatics, member of the Outcome Framework Technical Advisory Committee of the English Department of Health, member of the advisory committee on Hospital Groups of the Irish Ministry of Health, and member of the board of trustees of the Isala Clinics (Zwolle, a large teaching hospital in the Netherlands) and Arkin (Amsterdam, one of the largest mental health care institutes in the Netherlands)
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She has a broad background in health care management in state and federal health agencies, as chief executive of a health maintenance organization (HMO) , and as a senior executive of United Health Group in the United States, where she founded and directed a research center for more than 10 years.
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He was a founding member and chairman of the Quality Management Program for Health Care Organi ations in the Middle East and North z Africa, which helped improve health care in five participating Middle East countries. He has worked on health care quality improvement for the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Palestine Council of Health.
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Dr. Nair has been the technical quality adviser for several West African countries and team leader of three of N igeria's large health projects: Results Based Financing Project, Malaria Control Project, and the Polio Eradication Project.
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He was the dean of the National School of Public Health of Mexico; program director of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for Latin America; founding president and CEO of QualiMed (the leading consulting firm on quality improvement in Latin America)
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He is now immediate past-president of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico; a member of the board of directors and senior fellow of IHI; and professor and director of public policy and health systems of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, a leading private university in Mexico. Nynke van den Broek, Ph.D., FRCOG, DFFP, DTM&H, is a professor in maternal and newborn health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
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(doctor of dental surgery) from the Medical College of Virginia (Richmond)
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