Héctor Castro

Héctor Castro is a senior technical director with nonprofit global health organization Management Sciences for Health, and its global lead for infectious diseases, financing, technologies, data, and impact. He is the Latin America Policy Forum Chair for Health Technology Assessment International, was founding Chief Executive Director of the HTA Institute of Colombia, and Director of Medicines and Technologies at Colombia’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection. He has an MSc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a DrPH from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

People at a coronavirus testing center on July 2, 2020 in Mugda Medical College in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where half of the medical equipment in public health facilities goes unused according to the authors. The photo shows a crowd of people wearing masks waiting on line in chairs while a health worker in full protective gear walks beside them. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Poverty

Who Gets What and Why?

by Héctor Castro

Countries need informed decision-making through health technology assessment to allocate resources during the pandemic