Karima Saleh is a Senior Economist in the World Bank.  She holds a PhD degree in health economics from the Johns Hopkins University.  She has over 20 years of working experience covering East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East. She has work experience from over 15 countries, and has lived in several of them. Her work experiences (including field work) include areas of health financing policy in low- and middle-income countries.