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About the Contributors
Jean Damascène Butera is a country project director at the Health Finance and Governance Project, with 16 years of experience in health system strengthening. He has focused on human resources for health, community-based health insurance schemes, malaria control issues, and governance. In his technical role as human resources for health advisor, he supported and provided strategic guidance for the establishment of state-specific human resources for health policies, structures, and systems. As community-based health insurance advisor, he assisted developing countries with developing schemes and scale-up strategies. Butera holds a master’s degree in public health from the National University of Rwanda. His country experience includes Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. He has more than 10 years of administration, finance, and management experience in different settings. Robert Cohen is a preventive medicine physician at the U.S. Army Public Health Command. His work for the Army focuses on primary prevention and tropical medicine, including HIV and Ebola, as well as health economics and cost- effectiveness analyses. He also works as a consultant to the WHO, conducting statistical analyses of determinants of maternal and child mortality in developing countries. He received an MD from Columbia University and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University. Atef El Maghraby is currently leading WHO’s health systems strengthening portfolio in Iraq. Before that, he was chief health analyst at the African Development Bank. Maghraby is an expert in global health with an emphasis on human resources for health, service delivery, and health systems strengthening. His focus is on promoting greater value for money through investments in medical education, institutional capacity, and health policy development. He has a strong profile in designing and managing health programs and technical assistance on a large scale in more than 25 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Before joining the African Development Bank, Maghraby worked for the United Populations Fund, WHO, and the European Commission. He holds an MD and an MA. Wanda Jaskiewicz is a program director at IntraHealth International; with 20 years of experience in global health and development. She has focused on human resources for health, HIV/AIDS, family planning, and reproductive health. In her technical role as a senior health workforce advisor, she supports national stakeholders in strengthening human resource management systems to effectively develop, recruit, retain, and support the health workforce for increased access to quality health services. She has developed evidence-based tools to build organizational capacity in developing costed rural recruitment and retention strategies, as well as improving health workforce productivity and performance. She holds an MPH in international health and development from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and has field experience in more than 25 countries. Health Labor Market Analyses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0931-6