Dr Jeanette Vega Morales
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Red de Salud UC-Christus
Biography
Dr Jeanette Vega is the Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Red de Salud UC-Christus, the main private health provider in Chile. She has over 20 years of experience in international health. Her areas of expertise include social determinants of healthy, health equity and health systems.
Former Director of FONASA, the National Chilean Public Health Insurance Agency, as part of President Bachelet´s government, between 2014 and March 2018 and former Vice Minister of health, between 2008 and 2010. She has served as as Managing Director of Health at the Rockefeller Foundation between 2011 and 2014. Previously she was a Director at the World Health Organization in Geneva, where she led the equity in health agenda, and the Commission on Social Determinants of Health Secretariat, established in March 2005 to support countries and global health partners in addressing the social factors leading to ill health and health inequities.
She is a member of many international commissions and boards, including Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Board member of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program. She is a regular speaker, chair or moderator at global health meetings and a part of organizing major international conferences. Dr Vega has extensively published in peer reviewed journals, including The Lancet and the World Health Organization Bulletin. She has also led the Lancet Series on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Latin America.