INTEC regrets the death of the economist Magdalena Rathe
The economist, expert in health issues, collaborated with the university, through the Plenitude Foundation, in the creation of the Social Security Observatory in 2018.
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) lament el death at Economist Magdalena Rathe, Whoever it was advises of the Social Security Observatory (OSES), a university initiative supported by the Fullness Foundation with the objective of systematizing information of high technical quality and serving as a space for exchange and debate on the functioning of the Social Security System to promote its efficiency and development.
In a message of condolences, Julio Sanchez Marinez, rector of INTEC, expressed that with the Rathe's physical loss, specialized health economy lose one integrated professional, trained y Manager de important initiatives who always sought the common good and substantial improvements in the Systems of health and social Security from Dominican Republic.
Magdalena Rathe was co-founder and Executive Director of the Plenitude Foundation, which works to strengthen health systems and achieve a more equitable and sustainable world; she and coordinator of the Observatory of the Health System of the Dominican Republic and the Network of the Americas on Health Accounts.
He stood out as expert in health systems research and financing policies, health accounts and financial protection, with a primary interest in improving health system performance and understanding its complexity. He also collaborated with the update of the World Health Organization Global Expenditure Database (WHO) for Latin American and Caribbean countries, which is published annually in the WHO World Health Statistics and the World Bank's World Development Indicators, and collaborated with the Harvard Global Equity Initiative.
He published several books and wrote numerous articles and book chapters. Rathe was consultant for various international agencies such as WHO, Pan American Health Organization, Interamerican Development Bank and World Bank, as well as for universities such as Harvard School of Public Health and George Washington University. He held important positions in the Dominican government, including member of the Monetary Board of the Dominican Republic.
He was part of the team of commissioners, experts, managers, policymakers and civil society leaders that launched the Commission on Primary Health Care (APS) and resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean (ALC), initiative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Bank and The Lancet Americas.
Magdalena Rathe was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to the Dominican Republic in her adolescence where she studied university. She was the wife of fellow economist Ramón Pérez Minaya, a past member of the Board of Regents of INTEC.