Francesca Colombo

Head of Health Division, OECD

Francesca Colombo is Head of the Health Division at OECD. She is responsible for work on health, providing internationally comparable data on health systems and applying economic analysis to health policies, advising policy makers, stakeholders and citizens on how to respond to demands for more and better health care and make health systems more people centred. She has over 25 years of experience leading international activities on health and health systems. The results of the work she leads have informed policy-making processes at national and intergovernmental level across topics such as patient-reported outcomes and experiences of healthcare, health workforce, chronic diseases, health system resilience and sustainability.