Senior health economist with more than twenty five years of experience in international health, population, and development, Miloud Kaddar joined WHO-HQ in November 2002. As principal adviser, he led a group working on vaccine and biological products procurement, health financing and global interdependence. His principal assignments include work on supply, procurement strategies and policies, costing, pricing and financing of immunization and public health programs, health system development, middle income countries and financial sustainability issues.
Prior to joining WHO, he was serving as senior adviser to the Ministry of Health in Morocco in implementing an EU supported project on health sector reform. He also worked for Abt Associates in Bethesda (USA) to providing the technical leadership to the Partnership for Health Reform’s (PHR) Special Initiative on capacity building and Sustainability of Immunization Programs. He held a chief of department position in the International Children Centre in Paris for almost 10 years. He has conducted related health policy research, health program assessments and pharmaceutical sector policies and activities for UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, the World Bank, the EU and GTZ. He has served on the economics faculties of the various Universities in the world. He is one of the founders of the Maghreb Network on health economics and health Systems (RESSMA) and an active member of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA). Mr. Kaddar has a Post Graduate Degree in Economics from the University of Oran in Algeria, a Master of Arts from University of Grenoble (France) and a Diploma on Public Health from the University of Nancy in France. He is the author of more than 25 articles and other publications on health system financing and management, economics of pharmaceutical sector and vaccines, capacity building in public health and health economics.