Health governance
How health systems are steered: who decides, with what criteria, and how authority and accountability are distributed across institutions.
Health systems · Governance
Emilia
Caro
Works on the governance and transformation of health systems, treating them as social infrastructure that demands leadership, judgement and equity.
Global Chair, Women in Global Health
President, Women in Global Health Argentina
Executive Director, Fundación GEDYT
Board Member, GEDYT
01Bio
A career across science and policy
Emilia Caro works at the intersection of science, management and public policy in health. Trained in molecular biology and human genetics, with an MBA in health management, she has spent over two decades in the governance and transformation of health systems.
She serves as Global Chair of Women in Global Health, President of its Argentine chapter, and Executive Director of Fundación GEDYT. Her work spans health equity, the design of care models, and the strengthening of institutions that decide how health is governed.
02Areas of work
Territories of thought and influence
Systems transformation
Health understood as social infrastructure — designed, sustained and reformed with the same seriousness as any system a society depends on.
Leadership in decision spaces
Who sits at the tables where health is decided, and what changes when those tables reflect the populations they serve.
Innovation, data and health
The conditions under which new tools and evidence actually improve care, rather than adding complexity to systems already under strain.
Structural equity in health
Equity treated as a design property of systems, not an aspiration — built into how access, financing and governance are structured.
03Positions
Current institutional roles
- Global Chair Women in Global Health
- President Women in Global Health Argentina
- Executive Director Fundación GEDYT
- Board Member GEDYT
04Speaking
Public engagement
A selection of conferences, panels and publications. Updated periodically.
- 2026World Committee on Colorectal Cancer — Chicago
- 2026Global Women Leaders Dialogue — Invited participant
- 2025UN General Assembly 80 — Women in Global Health, New York
- 2025WGH Argentina & Elea / MSI — Webinar series
- 2025HTAi Annual Meeting — Plenary, Buenos Aires
- 2025World Committee on Colorectal Cancer — San Diego
- 2025“With Purpose” podcast — with Nashira Calvo
- 2025Intergenerational Panel — Gender Justice, UN Women / SADC
- 2024World Health Summit — Crisis and health
05Contact