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Leonardo Arregocés

Consultant in Health Policies at World Bank

About me

Leonardo Arregocés worked as the director of the Medicines and Health Technologies Colombia's Ministry of Health and Social Protection—a role that involves spearheading the definition and implementation of pharmaceutical and health technology policy in the country. He has also worked as a consultant for Management Sciences for Health (MSH), where he was responsible for the piloting of a primary health costing tool in Ethiopia in partnership with the country's Ministry of Health and different sub-national health authorities. During his professional career, he has worked as an advisor to the CEO of Colombia's Institute of Health Technology Assessment (IETS) and as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. In addition, Dr. Arregocés has worked for the consulting firm, G-Exponential, where he carried out a multinational evaluation of the response to the Zika virus outbreak in Latin American and the Caribbean for the Colombian Ministry of Health and the Autonomous University of Manizales [Universidad Autónoma de Manizales]. Between 2014 and 2016 he was a teacher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Leonardo is a qualified medical doctor who graduated from the Pontificia Javeriana University and holds a doctoral degree in public health and policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).