Gisela Garcia
World Bank
Gisela Garcia
Economist with Masters’ degree on Global Health and over 20 years of diverse technical and operational experience in international development. She has worked at the Bank in several capacities across Health, Gender, Social Protection and Poverty. Her most recent assignment was at the Independent Evaluation Group where she evaluated many health operations and lead the evaluation on World Bank Support to Aging Countries, assessing the relevance, coherence and efficacy of World Bank support to aging countries. Gisela has also contributed to the Healthy Longevity Initiative, for which she co-authored a background paper on the implications of aging for health and long-term care systems, currently under review for publication. Since 2021, Gisela has been providing operational support to health operations in Colombia, El Salvador, and Mexico. In addition to her multisectoral background, Gisela brings experience on Reproductive and Adolescent Health and NCDs.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Bolivia; Brazil; Cayman Islands; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Latinamerica & Caribbean; Mexico; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; |
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| Topics | Access to care; Ageing in place; Artificial Intelligence; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Care economy; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Care work and migration; Community-based LTC; Dementia care and support; Economics of LTC; Epidemiology and ageing trajectories; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Financing LTC; Gender and care; Governance and LTC systems organisation; Healthcare access in LTC; Home/domiciliary care; Information and data systems in LTC; Living arrangements; Long term care subsidies; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Systems; LTC systems in LMIC countries; LTC Workforce; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Primary Health Care; Quality regulation and accreditation for LTC services; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Social Innovation in LTC; Social Insurance; Social Protection; Survey measures; Technology and LTC; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; |
| Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Assessment tool development; Case studies; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Comparative policy analysis; Cost analysis; Data science and LTC research; Delphi surveys; Economic evaluation; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Guidelines development; Implementation science; Knowledge-exchange; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal data analysis; Measure validation; Mixed methods; Narrative evaluation methods; Observational studies; Panel data analysis; Policy analysis; Political decisions analysis; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Scoping reviews; Surveys; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; Time series analysis; Training materials; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Care home markets and regulation; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Data Science; Economics of Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care in Spain; Long-Term Care Policy; Migration Mobility and Care Workers; Quasi-experimental methods; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; Technology and Long-Term Care; |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisela-garcia-66b9004/ |