Joe Kutzin is a health economist with nearly 40 years of experience, working in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and the United States. He worked for a private health policy foundation and the World Bank before joining WHO in 1994. With WHO, he served in Kyrgyzstan as Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Health, in Copenhagen and Barcelona as the European Region’s lead advisor on health financing, and in Headquarters as lead of the Health Financing Team globally. He has published numerous conceptual and empirical articles on health systems, health financing, and…