The Pandemic Fund

by: Priya Basu, Executive Head, the Pan

Infectious diseases know no borders. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, health systems face growing pressures – from migration and tourism to shortages of frontline workers. Rising temperatures and natural disasters are compounding these challenges, increasing the spread of waterborne and vector-borne diseases.

Over the past three decades, the global health landscape has witnessed an increasing array of actors—from international organizations and pooled financing mechanisms to philanthropic foundations. While targeted initiatives to combat specific diseases have yielded important gains, they too often operate in silos, sidelining national governments and resulting in a whole that is smaller than the sum of its parts.

Dr. Amparo Elena Gordillo-Tobar is a Senior Health Economist with over 15 years of experience as a Project Task Team Leader at the World Bank where she has prepared, managed, supervised and led innovative health financing investment Bank projects. Currently, Dr Gordillo-Tobar is the Senior Portfolio Manager for the Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank, where she oversees the advances on implementation of the Pandemic Fund Projects. 

Monica brings over a decade of experience in portfolio and office management at both country and corporate levels of the World Bank. A Brazilian national, she joined the institution in 2013 and has since supported a wide range of programs, most recently supporting analytic and operational tasks across the Health, Nutrition, and Population portfolio in West and Central Africa.

She holds an MBA in Economics and Government Relations, BS in International Relations, and Certificates from the University of Cape Town in Monitoring and Evaluation.

COMING SOON

COMING SOON

Receiving a diagnosis of Marburg hemorrhagic disease can be a death sentence, with a case fatality rate as high as 88 percent.  But Rwanda bucked that outcome in its Marburg outbreak response, achieving the lowest fatality rate ever recorded, thanks to swift action by the Government of Rwanda and timely support from the Pandemic Fund and other partners.