Hernan Montenegro is Coordinator of the Services Organization and Clinical Interventions Unit, Service Delivery and Safety Department, at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a Medical Doctor degree from the University of Chile, a Specialist in Public Health degree from the University of Chile, and a Master in Public Health degree from the University of Johns Hopkins. He also has two years of postgraduate training in General Surgery at the University of Chile’s Jose Joaquin Aguirre Hospital.

At the beginning of his career, Hernan served as a clinician providing primary care and emergency care services to a low-income population in Santiago, Chile. From 1988 to 1995, he was a professor of public health at the School of Public Health of the University of Chile. From 1991 to 1995 he worked for the Chilean Ministry of Health, first as a Public Health Specialist and, later on, as the Head of the Health Sector Reform Project Coordination Unit. In 1996 he joined the World Bank where he became Senior Health Specialist for the Human Development Sector Management Unit, Latin America and Caribbean Region, in Washington D.C. While at the World Bank he worked in Panama, Mexico and Brazil. In 2001 he joined the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/WHO as Regional Adviser on Hospital and Health Services Management, and later on from 2004 to 2007 he became Chief of the Health Services Organization Unit of PAHO/WHO in Washington, D.C. In December 2011 he joined WHO Headquarters as a Health Systems Adviser. Hernan’s areas of expertise are: health services organization, management and delivery; health systems; health sector reform; health policy, strategic planning; and project/programme formulation and evaluation.