Erica Barbazza, MSc, BHSc, is a HealthPros fellow and PhD candidate at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam on the transferability of actionable healthcare performance indicators. Her research aims to put focus on indicators for measurement of the capacity, performance and impact of primary health care.

Prior to joining HealthPros, Erica was a technical officer at the WHO European Centre for Primary Health Care in Almaty, Kazakhstan where she worked on topics related to integrated health services delivery, quality of care and primary health care performance. She has also worked as a technical officer at the WHO European Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In these roles, Erica has provided international technical assistance in countries across central Asia and Europe including Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine. Erica has contributed to a number of WHO publications including technical reports, policy briefs, book chapters, as well as peer-reviewed articles on health services delivery, health system governance and integrated health services.

Erica obtained an MSc in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics and BHSc in Health Sciences from the University of Western Ontario.