Health programme - global

Cristina Costa, MD, MPH, is a Consultant Doctor in Public Health working at the Department of Health Promotion and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention at the Portuguese National Institute of Health (INSA), with a focus on HIA, health policy research, and the evaluation of public health programs and plans. She currently coordinates the Technical Working Group for the evaluation of the Portuguese National Health Plan (Plano Nacional de Saúde 2030) at INSA. She is also a guest lecturer in health evaluation at the University of Porto. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is currently a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at the National School of Public Health (ENSP-NOVA). She has participated in national and international research projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the European Commission, and the COST Association, particularly in the fields of impact evaluation and systems thinking. She is an active member of the Portuguese Association of Public Health Doctors (ANMSP), the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), and the European Evaluation Society (EES).

Global Health consultant with a passion for in-depth analysis, strategic planning and evaluation, an eye for interdependence, participation and a focus on resolving challenges and bottlenecks in execution in a range of contexts.

Key qualifications: Health Policy, Planning & Financing; Primary Health Care, Tropical Medicine & Public Health; Management.
In-depth management experience with different models of bilateral and interagency cooperation: CSOs, IOs & delegated projects, budget support & technical assistance, audit, monitoring & evaluation.
Results-oriented: Highly skilled in context analysis, beyond the technical content of health interventions, for realistic and effective programme design. This includes the engagement of actors, inter-institutional and multi-sector collaboration and processes in the relief development nexus.
Specific health sector expertise: primary health care including the integration of vertical programs (e.g., TB, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and mother-and-child health), and evaluation of humanitarian projects.
Management and training of human resources, team player, team builder, and team leader of up to 30+ international and local staff.

Jaap Koot is a medical doctor specialised in public health and health management with a postgraduate degree in International Health and Tropical Medicine (KNMG) and Master in Business Administration. He works in education and research in the university and in international health and development. He has experience in the Netherlands, in Central and Eastern Europe and in middle- and low-income countries all over the world.
His research concentrates on policy development to reduce inequities in health, for example in community health for prevention of non-communicable diseases. In education he focuses on global health care management and health promotion. He supports public health institutes in low-income countries in strengthening research for evidence-based policy making.

Specialties: medical doctor, public health, health promotion, management, quality assurance, health literacy, monitoring and evaluation