Britta Monika Baer

Britta Monika Baer has worked with the World Health Organization since 2011, including the last four years as Technical Officer (gender, equity, human rights, and aging) in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila, Philippines. She supported the development of the Regional Framework for Action on Ageing and Health in the Western Pacific (2014-2019) and its endorsement by the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in 2013. As part of the Framework dissemination and implementation, Ms. Baer provided technical support to policy dialogue in a number of countries, with a strong focus on health systems reorientation to better respond to the needs and preferences of older people in the context of universal health coverage. Before joining WHO, she worked for a number of different international and national actors on health and development in the European and African regions.