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Founding partner and President at Bitrán & Associates
Ricardo Bitrán is a specialist consultant in health economics and health system financing. In 1995, he founded the international consulting firm, Bitrán & Associates (B&A), over which he currently presides, specializing in evaluating public health policy design and implementation for governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. He has more than 35 years of experience as a consultant and researcher in the United States, Chile, and more than 50 developing countries in Africa, America, and Asia. He is an expert in health systems, health insurance and financing, health reform, and pharmaceutical markets. Dr. Bitrán is an advisor to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, the United States Agency for Development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Global Fund, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and other public and private organizations. For 10 years he worked at Abt Associates Inc. in Cambridge, initially as a health economist, and later as a senior scientist. Along with Marty Makinen, he created the International Health Group at Abt—today one of the largest groups of its kind in the world. Dr. Bitrán has 25 years of academic experience as a professor at Boston University, Tufts University, the University of Chile, and at the International Center for Children and the Family (CIDEF) in Paris. He was the academic director for Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Bank Institute's Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing. He also helped develop and teach the global and regional flagship programs in cooperation with Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) and Harvard University. Dr. Bitrán is the author of numerous academic papers, books, chapters, teaching materials, as well as research studies in health economics. He has a civil engineering degree from the University of Chile and holds an MBA in business administration and finance and a doctorate in health economics, both from Boston University.