The position of Managing Director of Health programs at the Rockefeller Foundation has been vacant for over half a year since Ariel Pablos-Mendez left the Foundation to become the Assistant Administrator of Global Health at USAID last summer. The Director is responsible for overseeing the Transforming Health Systems Initiative among other programs. The THSI initiative is in my view one of the few initiatives among the big global health Foundations that has dared to think outside the box in terms of how to build and strengthen health systems globally. For better or for worse, we have them to thank for the buzz word “Universal Health Coverage”.

Over the weekend I learned that that the Foundation has found Ariel’s replacement. Jeannette Vega, a Chilean medical doctor and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology, will be joining the Foundation in a few months to head[...]

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