Tania Dmytraczenko is a health economist with 20 years of experience as a researcher and technical advisor working on health policy and planning, health care financing and health systems strengthening in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. She currently serves as Practice Manager for Europe and Central Asia in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank. Before joining the World Bank, she was a principal at Abt Associates, where she provided technical assistance on programs financed by United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS. Prior to that, she had a joint appointment with the Department of Economics and the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.