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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This report was prepared by a team led by Mr. Patricio
V. Marquez, Lead Health Specialist, Eastern and
Southern Africa Region (AFTHE), World Bank, that
included Dr. Jill L. Farrington, Honorary Senior Lecturer,
Nuffield Centre for International Health and
Development, Leeds, UK and former Coordinator,
NCDs, WHO Europe, who served as the principal
researcher/writer; Ms. Huihui Wang, Health Economist,
AFTHE, World Bank, Mr. Alberto Gonima,
Consultant, Health Care Management and Information
Systems, and Ms. Sheila Dutta, Senior Health
Specialist, World Bank, who provided inputs for selected
sections, and Ms. Joy de Beyer, World Bank
Institute, who provided editorial support. Mr. Colin
Douglas edited the final version of the report.
The team benefitted from the valuable comments
and suggestions made by a group of distinguished
experts on draft versions of the report, as follows:
Africa Region: Dr. Shenaaz El-Halabi, Deputy Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Health of Botswana;
Prof. Krisela Steyn, School of Medicine, University
of Cape Town; Prof. Diane McIntyre, Health Economics
Unit, University of Cape Town; Dr. Magda
Robalo, WHO Resident Representative in Namibia;
and Dr. Karen Voetsch, US CDC/Botswana.
International: Sir George Alleyne, former Director
of PAHO/WHO; Prof. Martin McKee, London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases; Dr. Kalipso
Chalkidou, UK National Institute of Health
and Clinical Excellence; Prof. Rob Moodie, University
of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute of Global Health;
Prof. Miriam Rabkin, Columbia University Mailman
School of Public Health; Dr. Suzanne Gaudreault,
USAID/Quality Assurance Project; Dr. Gene Bukhman,
Director, Harvard Medical School and Program
in Global Non-Communicable Disease and
Social Change, Partners in Health, Dr. Doyin Oluwole,
Executive Director, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon
Initiative, George W. Bush Institute, and Dr. Robert
Beaglehole, former Director, Department of Chronic
Disease and Health Promotion, WHO and convener
of four Lancet NCD series.
World Bank: Dr. Olusoji Adeyi, Sector Manager,
AFTHE, Eastern and Southern Africa; Ms. Trina
Haque, Sector Manager, AFTHW, Africa West and
Central; Dr. Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, Lead HNP Specialist,
Public Health Cluster; Mr. Sameh El-Saharty,
Senior Health Policy Specialist, South Asia Region;
Dr. Shiyong Wang, Senior Health Specialist, Middle
East and North Africa (MNSHD) Region; Mr. John
C. Langenbrunner, Lead Economist, HNP Anchor;
Mr. Jean J de St Antoine, Former Acting Health,
Nutrition , and Population Sector Manager, Africa
Region; Dr. Joana Godinho, Sector Manager, Health,
Nutrition and Population, Latin America and Caribbean
Region; Mr. Chris Lovelace, Lead Health Specialist,
AFTHE; Mr. Deon Filmer, Lead Economist,
Human Development Department, Africa Region;
Dr. Gaston Sorgho, Lead Health Specialist, Human
Development Department, Africa Region; Dr. Humberto
Albino Cossa, Senior Health Specialist, AF-
THE; Ms. Karima Seleh, Senior Health Economist,
AFTHE; Mr. Saul Walker, Health Specialist, AFTHE;
Mr. Ronald Mutasa, Health Specialist, AFTHE; Mr.
Jean-J Frere, Senior Health Specialist (ret.), and Mr.
Willy de Geyndt, Lead Health Specialist, East Asia
and the Pacific (ret.), and now Adjunct Professor,
International Health Department, Georgetown University
Medical Center.
Administrative support was also provided by Ms.
Yvette Atkins, Senior Program Assistant, AFTHE
and Ms. Samia Benbouzid, Program Assistant,
AFTHE.
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