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Edgar Barillas, MD, MSc

Associate Consultant

BIOGRAPHY

Consultant in international health with 25 years’ experience in the areas of health policy, pharmaceutical management, and health financing. Team leader or principal researcher in more than 100 consulting projects in Central, North, and South America. As a national consultant for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Mr. Barillas implemented projects on essential medicines and primary health care in rural and indigenous areas of Guatemala. As a WHO consultant, analyzed social security schemes for the poor and underserved, the responsiveness capacity of health systems, the implications of globalization in health, and of partnerships between WHO and private organizations.

As a Senior Program Associate and Portfolio Manager for Management Sciences for Health, Mr. Barillas managed USAID funded projects to strengthen pharmaceutical systems in Nicaragua and seven South American countries that share the Amazon Basin and supported the organization of a unified pharmaceutical system in Dominican Republic. As a consultant for the Health Management and Innovation Group (GIS), in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Barillas supported the strengthening of the health supply chain system, the development of a programmatic supervision system for health service providers, the prioritization of the National HIV Strategic Plan interventions, a plan for decentralization of HIV and TB laboratory sample processing, and a study on stigma and discrimination against people with HIV. As an independent consultant, Mr. Barillas participated in the Essential Drug Program evaluation teams in Bolivia, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru and Yemen, and recently supported the development of an HIV response sustainability plan in Guatemala, a transition plan from external funding of TB control in the Dominican Republic, and studies of national malaria control programs in Guyana and Panama.