A paediatrician with a strong interest in public health who has spent more than 40 years working in the health systems sector and acquiring substantial expertise in human resource development on a regional, national, and worldwide scale. Ph.D. in Public Health with a thesis on the development of an innovative approach for assessing human resources for health policy, and Master of Social Medicine with a dissertation on health-care delivery models in the context of Brazil's increasing urbanisation. In addition to Brazil, I have worked in a number of Latin American, African, Middle Eastern, European, and Asian countries, primarily developing technical cooperation in human resources for health (HRH), with a focus on policy, planning, and information systems for health professionals, as well as health system reform. My research interests include health service delivery, HRH policy planning and implementation, and approaches for health workforce planning and scaling up, among other things.