CHAIR:
Phil Hay
Communications Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank

Mr. Hay is Communications Advisor for the Human Development Network at the World Bank, helping to raise the profile and proven impact of human development issues such as health, nutrition and population, HIV/AIDS, education, etc., in the global and national media, and within the wider development community. He also works closely with key partners such as civil society, the specialist UN agencies, parliamentarians, the private sector, and others to advance the human development agenda. Mr. Hay is a former BBC Special Correspondent and veteran commentator and writer on international affairs.

AUTHOR:
Marko Vujicic
Senior Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank

Mr. Vujicic is currently Senior Economist in the Health, Nutrition and Population unit of the World Bank. His main area of expertise is health labor market policy in developing countries, including topics such as health worker productivity, labor force participation, and migration of health workers. He is lead author of the book Working in Health. He also works on broader health service delivery and health financing issues and is a co-editor of Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries. He has worked in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He worked as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and was a labor economist at the World Health Organization in Geneva prior to joining the World Bank.

PANELISTS:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President and Head of Network, Human Development Network, World Bank

Ms. Phumaphi was appointed Vice President of the Human Development Network for the World Bank in February 2007. A Botswana national, she left the public service in Botswana as the Principal Auditor for the country’s local authorities. From 1994 to 2003, she was elected into parliament, and also served as the founding Treasurer of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for Health, where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act. In 2003, she joined the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director-General for Family and Community Health. She has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on Economics, UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance, and member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa.

Ruth Levine
Vice President, Program & Operations, Center for Global Development

Ms. Levine is Vice President for Program and Operations at the Center for Global Development (CGD). She is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. In addition, she leads the Center’s work on global health policy, including chairing a series of working groups on solving key policy and finance problems related to the effective use of donor funding for health programs in low-income countries. Before joining the CGD, Ms. Levine designed, supervised, and evaluated loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as the advisor on the social sectors in the office of the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Joan Holloway
Senior Technical Advisor, Human Resources for Health, Office for U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Ms. Holloway is the Senior Technical Advisor for Human Resources for Health and Health Systems Strengthening in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC). A former U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officer, she came to OGAC from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she was Director of the Division of Science and Policy in the HIV/AIDS Bureau. A health care administrator, Ms. Holloway has managed both community-based and hospital-based primary care facilities. She was manager of the Medical Information Project of the Privacy Protection Study Commission, a joint U.S. Presidential-Congressional initiative . She also directed the Division of Programs for Special Populations in HHS's Bureau of Primary Health Care.

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