BBA President, Rena Eichler, Center for Global Development Visiting Fellow, concentrates on the application of incentives to improve health system performance. She is an economist with more than fifteen years of experience working on health financing and health systems strengthening in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Rena served as technical lead for the Performance Based Incentives Working Group run by the Center for Global Development and is the technical advisor to the Inter-Agency Working Group on Results Based Financing. She is co-author with Ruth Levine of the book, Performance Incentives for Health- Potential and Pitfalls.

As President of Broad Branch Associates, Rena leads the global work program on pay for performance in the USAID Health Systems 20/20 project and manages a portfolio on health systems strengthening in the USAID MCHIP project. Rena has worked for clients that include AusAID, Norad, and the World Bank. Rena received her PhD from Boston University.

(Contact: renaeichler@broadbranch.org)