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    Héctor Castro

    Global Lead of Health Financing, Technologies, Data, and Impact

    Héctor Castro, MD, PhD, Global Lead of Infectious Diseases, Health Financing, Technologies, Data, and Impact at MSH, has more than 20 years of global health experience with a focus on health systems strengthening and reforms in quality assurance, assessment, health financing, strategic purchasing, and provision of health care services and technologies (including medicines, devices, and procedures) in low and middle-income countries. Before joining MSH, Dr. Castro served as chief officer, technical advisor, director, and manager in strategic planning, quality assurance, health, safety, and environment for various pharmaceutical, health insurance, and nongovernmental organizations.

    Dr. Castro is currently the Latin America Policy Forum Chair of the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi), former founding Chief Executive Director of the HTA Institute of Colombia, and Director of Medicines and Technologies at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia. He served from 2018 to 2020 on the Board of Directors of HTAi, a prominent international network in the field of health technology assessment. Dr. Castro is a physician by training, has an MSc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics and Political Science, is a Doctor in Public Health and Policy/Health Economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and was a Takemi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

     

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    Recent Posts by Héctor Castro

    • Who gets what and why? Countries need informed decision-making through health technology assessment to allocate resources during the pandemic

    • Moving LMICs toward Self-Reliance: A Roadmap for Systematic Priority Setting for Resource Allocation

    Recent Journal Articles by Héctor Castro

    • Multicriteria Decision Analysis to Support Health Technology Assessment Agencies: Benefits, Limitations, and the Way Forward

    • Sharing Knowledge for Policy Action in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Literature Review of Managed Entry Agreements

    • HTA and MCDA solely or combined? The case of priority-setting in Colombia

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