Dr. Tomas Zapata is a health services and health workforce expert with more than 17 years of experience in policy advice, research, and program implementation, including long-term international work with WHO, UNFPA, and Doctors of the World based in Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Bangladesh, India, and South East Asia. He has also provided short-term technical advice in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. For the past five and a half years, he has been leading the Unit of Health Workforce and Health Services in the WHO Regional Office for Europe, based in Copenhagen. Dr. Tomas Zapata is a medical doctor specialized in Family Medicine in Spain (Alcala University). He holds a Master’s degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the London School of Economics (LSE), and a Master’s Degree in Humanitarian Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He also has a specialized short course on Human Resources for Health by Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Tomas Zapata is visiting Professor in the Portugal National School of Public Health.