Johnattan Garcia Ruiz
Department Associate
Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Global Health and Population
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Biography
Johnattan Garcia-Ruiz, MPH, MBA, LL.B., is a Department Associate affiliated with the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Global Health and Population. He is also a Lecturer at the Universidad de los Andes School of Law and the Universidad del Rosario School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Bogota, Colombia.
He received his Law degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, a Master of Public Health degree in Global Health from Harvard University, and an MBA from Reuben College, University of Oxford.
Johnattan is the Co-founder and Director of Decilion, a global health consulting firm that specializes in the intersection between comparative health systems analysis and digital communications. In his early career, he served at the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection, where he worked on drug access and price regulation as a legal advisor to the Director of Medicines and Health Technologies. He co-founded the Environmental and Public Health Law Clinic at the Universidad de los Andes School of Law, where he participated as an amicus curiae for the Colombian Constitutional Court in cases related to pharmaceutical policy and the right to health of indigenous communities. During his MPH program, Johnattan interned at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C., and the World Health Organization Centre for Health Development in Kobe, Japan. During his MBA, he was a member of the Social Impact Lab at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford. He was also a researcher at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society - Dejusticia and Senior Associate at the Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab.
As an independent consultant, Johnattan has led research projects with Oxfam International to understand the inequities of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Latin America, with the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre to explore the challenges of falsified medicines in Colombia, with ACCESS Health International on the use of Fintech to improve Universal Health Care in Latin America and with the Pan American Health Organization on the access to Essential Medicines and Prioritized Medical Devices in Latin America and the Caribbean. Most recently, he has consulted for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on strategies to improve access to raw materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients for the Colombian local drug manufacturing sector, for Expertise France on a comparative analysis of regulatory agencies in Europe and Latin America, and the National Business Association of Colombia on how to improve Colombia’s clinical research capabilities.
His research interests include global health, access to medicines and health technologies, comparative health systems, health reforms, and the use of digital technologies to communicate public health information.
Education and Training
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J.D., Law
Universidad de los Andes -
MPH, Global Health
Harvard University -
MBA, Business
University of Oxford