LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Washington, D.C. 23 - 24 November, 2009 REGIONAL WORKSHOP The Economic, Fiscal and Welfare Implications of Chronic Diseases in the Americas Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 525 Twenty Third Street, N.W. – Room “C” Washington, D.C. 20037 Argentina Chile Tomas Pippo David Debrott Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Tim Miller Bolivia CEPAL E-mail: [email protected] Rory Narvaez Consultant E-mail: [email protected] Colombia Jairo H. Restrepo Brazil University of Antioquia E-mail: [email protected] Hésio Cordeiro Director de Gestao Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar - ANS E-mail: [email protected] Costa Rica Juan Rafael Vargas Elias Antonio Jorge University of Costa Rica E-mail: [email protected] Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Cuba Pedro Hidalgo Prado Sergio Francisco Piola Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Instituto de Pesquiza Econômica Aplicada - IPEA E-mail: [email protected] Luciana Mendes Santos Instituto de Pesquiza Econômica Aplicada - IPEA E-mail: [email protected] Jamaica Alfredo Scaff Secretario Executivo Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar - ANS E-mail: [email protected] Ballayran Cesar Vieira Mexico Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute – CFNI E-mail: [email protected] Instituto Brasileiro para Estudo e Desenvolvimento do Sector Saúde - IBEDESS E-mail: [email protected] Fernando Alvarez del Rio Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Canada Peter C. Coyte University of Toronto E-mail: [email protected] Cristina Gutierrez Delgado Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] 1 David Mayer Jeremiah Norris División de Economía Centro de Investigación y Doc. Económicas - CIDE E-mail: [email protected] Hudson Institute E-mail: [email protected] Rachel Nugent Paraguay Center for Global Development - CGD E-mail: [email protected] Mirco Osorio Ignez Tristao Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Inter-American Development Bank - IDB E-mail: [email protected] Jorge Ugaz University of Chicago E-mail: [email protected] Peru Alejandro Jorge Morales Uruguay Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Laura Rivas Trinidad and Tobago Health Economics Unit/Department UES/DES Ministry of Health E-mail: [email protected] Karl Theodore Switzerland University of West Indies E-mail: [email protected] Shanthi Mendis United States WHO E-mail: [email protected] Suchit Arora PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA - PHAC Consultant E-mail: [email protected] Sylvie Desjardins E-mail: [email protected] Jonathan Brown Kaiser Permanente E-mail: [email protected] Alan Diener Joel W. Cohen PANAMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION PAHO Director Agency for Health Research Quality - AHQR E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] George Alleyne E-mail: [email protected] Isaac Cohen Consultant E-mail: [email protected] Gisele Almeida Amparo Gordillo Alberto Barcelo E-mail: [email protected] Senior Economist (Health) World Bank E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] James Hospedales E-mail: [email protected] Peter Heller Consultant E-mail: [email protected] Enrique Jacoby Meri Helleranta Branka Legetic E-mail: [email protected] Social Development Specialist Inter-American Development Bank - IDB E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Kevin Klowden Oscar Mujica Jimena Luna E-mail: [email protected] Managing Economist The Milken Institute E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Enrique Perez E-mail: [email protected] Maureen Lewis Advisor Development Economics, Operations and Strategy World Bank E-mail: [email protected] Claudia Pescetto Claudio Loser Ruben Suarez E-mail: [email protected] Matilde Pinto E-mail: [email protected] Senior Fellow Inter-American Development Bank - IDB E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Phillip Musgrove Editor Health Affairs Email: [email protected] 2