Social Sector Specialist, ADB Profile / Bio Profile / Bio Kirthi works on health and social protection projects in ADB’s Central and West Asia region. She is particularly interested in the quality of care, improving health governance to strengthen health systems, how digital health can transform health care, and social protection. Kirthi’s experience includes working on various projects across Asia and the Pacific in social protection, health systems strengthening, and local governance in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Tonga, and Nepal. She has supported the preparation of Germany’s National Global Health Strategy and just prior to joining ADB she worked with the Ministry of Health in Malawi on financial management for the Global Fund. Follow on Materials Title Date Learning Materials Topics Standards and Interoperability: Laying the Foundations for Digital Health Systems 8 November, 2018 Slides Health, ICT Why Care about Quality of Care? The Case of Lao PDR’s Health System 12 March, 2018 Slides Health, Governance and Public Sector Management