Tania Dmytraczenko, a senior economist with the World Bank’s Health Nutrition and Population Global Practice, has extensive experience as a researcher and technical advisor working on health policy, health financing and health systems strengthening in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Before joining the Bank, she was a principal at Abt Associates providing technical assistance on USAID, WHO, UNFPA and UNAIDS projects. Prior to that, she had a joint appointment with the Department of Economics and the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published in books and peer-reviewed journals.