Rafael A Cortez
RAFAEL CORTEZ is a professor-researcher in economics, program team leader, and systems thinker, with a particular focus on microeconomics analysis, health financing and maternal, maternal, child, and adolescent health and social protection challenges. He holds a professor and principal researcher position of Economics at University of Pacific (UP). Prior to joining the UP, from 2003 to 2022 he worked as senior economist and team lead of the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition, and population Global Practice. Rafael joined the World Bank in 2003 and worked as a team lead in project design and management and health systems reforms in low, middle, and high-income countries. As international expert in health economics, Rafael led and contributed to lending operations and analytical work in more than 15 countries in South Asia, Latin America, Europe, Central Asia, and Africa regions. He has worked on a range of issues, including strategic purchasing in health, maternal, child, and adolescent health. Prior to joining the Bank, as an associated professor at the economics department at the University of Pacific, he worked as economic advisor for the president’s office of the social health insurance in Peru (2000-1999) and in the prime minister’s office (1996).
He holds a Ph.D. in applied economics and master’s in science in economics from the University of Minnesota. He obtained his bachelor’s degree, and Licentiate Degree in Economics from the Universidad del Pacifico. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. At the UP he has taught intermediate and advanced microeconomics, heath economics and impact evaluation courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and (in addition to UP) he was invited to lecture in economics and global Health courses as guest lecturer at University of College London, Universidad Publica de Navarra, and Georgetown University, and participated in many international conferences as a speaker
Rafael’s main research interests over the last 25 years have concerned health financing, maternal, child and adolescent health and poverty alleviation and policies. He has advised numerous governments in more than 15 countries worldwide and he has led research in health economics and poverty alleviation strategies in Peru conducted research commissioned by international agencies (USAID, UNICEF, IADB, JICA, IDRC, PAHO), and he has written extensively on this and other subjects in economics and health financing and policies, including seven books and 30 papers in scholarly journals, working papers, and edited volumes.
Rafael’s email is: cortez_ra@up.edu.pe
He holds a Ph.D. in applied economics and master’s in science in economics from the University of Minnesota. He obtained his bachelor’s degree, and Licentiate Degree in Economics from the Universidad del Pacifico. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. At the UP he has taught intermediate and advanced microeconomics, heath economics and impact evaluation courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and (in addition to UP) he was invited to lecture in economics and global Health courses as guest lecturer at University of College London, Universidad Publica de Navarra, and Georgetown University, and participated in many international conferences as a speaker
Rafael’s main research interests over the last 25 years have concerned health financing, maternal, child and adolescent health and poverty alleviation and policies. He has advised numerous governments in more than 15 countries worldwide and he has led research in health economics and poverty alleviation strategies in Peru conducted research commissioned by international agencies (USAID, UNICEF, IADB, JICA, IDRC, PAHO), and he has written extensively on this and other subjects in economics and health financing and policies, including seven books and 30 papers in scholarly journals, working papers, and edited volumes.
Rafael’s email is: cortez_ra@up.edu.pe
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