Dr Javier Guzman
Director of Research
MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Hons); MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing (LSHTM - LSE)
Dr Javier Guzman trained as a medical doctor and worked in planning and implementation of primary health care projects in the Colombian countryside for several years. He mainly worked in early detection and treatment programmes of endemic infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease. Javier moved to the UK in 2002, where he worked as a Post Graduate Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics at the Royal London Hospital. In 2004, he obtained his MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In August 2004, he joined the PRPP where he has worked mainly on the performance of different R&D models and pipelines. Javier moved to Australia in April 2006 and now heads the HPD's research team at The George Institute, Sydney.