Francesca Colombo is the Head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Health Division. She leads OECD work on health, providing internationally comparable data on health, applying economic and data-driven analysis to health policies within a cross-sectoral perspective, and advising policymakers and stakeholders on how to make health systems more resilient and people-centred.
Issues Francesca covers in her role include: health systems resilience and value for money; health workforce; health spending and the financial sustainability; measuring of healthcare activities, inputs and outcomes (including the PaRIS initiative developing, standardising and implementing indicators of
outcomes and experiences of healthcare); healthcare quality policies; ageing and long-term care; the economics of public health; pharmaceutical policies; and AI and digital health (http://www.oecd.org/health). The results of this work have informed policy-making processes at national and intergovernmental level.
Ms Colombo is a member of the NUS-Lancet Pandemic Readiness, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Commission on COVID-19, the World Health Summit Council, the UK Health Foundation’s NHS Productivity Commission and served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on
Health and Healthcare and member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. She has over 25 years of experience leading international activities on health and health systems.
