Pete Baker is the Acting Director of the global health policy programme at the Center for Global Development.
He is an expert in how donor and domestic health financing can integrate to achieve the greatest impact on population health. He is also working on improving the financing of supply chains, health prioritisation, health taxes, UK global health policy, and reform of the global health architecture. He has advised Africa CDC, the World Bank, FCDO/DFID, MSF, the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, and a range of countries across Africa and Asia on global health reform and setting health priorities.
He is a public health specialist doctor and Fellow of the UK’s Faculty of Public Health. For five years he was a member of the UK’s NICE Technical Appraisal Committee A, which advises the NHS on resource allocation decisions. His medical degree is from the University of Manchester and he holds an MSc in Health Policy Planning and Finance from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
