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Founding Partner at Blutitude
Mariana Barraza is a founding partner of Blutitude, an institution engaged in assessing medical services and adopting new technologies in medical care, providing specialized consulting services in health policy, planning and strategy, priority setting, and health technology evaluation. She works in the Better Health Program in Mexico under the UK Prosperity Fund. Mariana is a Senior Consultant in Pharmaceutical Policy and Health Systems. Since 2015, Barraza has been engaged in consulting projects—she has acted as advisor to the Undersecretariat for Integration and Development of the Health Sector and was coordinator of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy Studies at the Mexican Health Foundation (Funsalud). She has also served as an advisor to the financial director of the Mexican Institute for Social Security and has provided support to the Mexican Ministry of Health for almost 10 years in different areas, including her assignment as deputy general director of financing policies in the Economic Analysis Unit. She has been involved in several projects related to the health system, including the 2003 reform of the General Health Law which created the Social Protection Health System (Seguro Popular), and the development of pharmaceutical policy proposals. She has also worked as a researcher at the Center for Health Economics at the University of York; and has worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, and Funsalud. Mariana has a degree in economics from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) [Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México*] and a master's degree in health economics from the University of York.