Francesca Colombo

Head of health division

OECD

As Head of the OECD Health Division, Francesca Colombo is responsible for OECD work on health, which aims at providing internationally comparable data on health systems and applying economic analysis to health policies, advising policy makers, stakeholders and citizens on how to respond to demands for more and better health care. Ms. Colombo was a Senior Health Policy Analyst in the Health Division and since November 2013 has been acting Head of the Health Division. She has led projects on the performance of health systems in OECD countries, covering a wide range of topics, including quality of health care policies, health financing and the impact of private health insurance on health systems, health workforce and the international migration of doctors and nurses. 

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