Dr. Cristian C. Baeza, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the Center for Healthy Development (CHD) and Senior Fellow at MSH,works extensively on global health care financing and health systems, having advised more than 40 countries and social health insurance institutions in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. He has been a senior contributing member to numerous multilateral initiatives on health systems and health financing, including the World Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, the Global Forum for Health Sector Reform, and the World Economic Forum. He has also advised USAID, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and UKAID/DFID (currently Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) on universal health coverage, global health architecture and financing, and health systems policy and...