Diana Pinto is a Health Lead Specialist in the IDB’s office in Washington DC. Prior to joining the IDB, she worked as Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana’s School of Medicine and as Research Associate at Fedesarrollo, conducting research in applied health economics. She also worked as Health Policy Advisor to the Minister of Social Protection in Colombia, in charge of the design and evaluation of health sector policy, and of the design, development and coordination of technical studies to support decision making with respect to benefits packages and their financial sustainability. Diana has also carried out numerous consultancies for the World Bank, CAF and IDB among other institutions. She has published and served as editor of book chapters on health financing and insurance.

Diana, of Colombian nationality, is a medical doctor and holds a Master of Science in Health Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a ScD in Population and International Health (International Health Policy and Economics Program) from Harvard School of Public Health. (dpinto@iadb.org)