Head of the Health Division

Francesca Colombo is the Head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Health Division. She leads OECD work on health, providing internationally comparable health data, conducting economic and data-driven analysis of health policies, and advising policymakers on how to make health systems more resilient and people-centred. Her portfolio covers health system resilience, health workforce, health spending and financial sustainability, healthcare quality, ageing and long-term care, public health economics, pharmaceutical policy, AI, and digital health. She is a member of the NUS-Lancet Pandemic Readiness, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Commission on COVID-19, the World Health Summit Council, and the UK Health Foundation’s NHS Productivity Commission. She has also served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare and as a member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. She has more than 25 years of experience leading international work on health and health systems.