Dr. Munar research interests are focused on the interface between the governance and operation of primary health care systems. His research is informed by more than two-decades of global health and global development practice and his experience as a policy maker in Colombia. Dr Munar has a deep grasp of the design, implementation, and evaluation of health system reforms in low- and middle-income countries. Since joining GWSPH he has successfully obtained funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through which he maintains a research portfolio in health systems research in El Salvador, Honduras, Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Bangladesh and India. Dr Munar is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Primary Health Care Research Consortium, hosted by the George Institute for Global Health in India and funded by the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation. His membership in the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund will end in March 2022. He has served on multiple expert committees in global health and global development in multilateral finance, technical and philanthropic organizations. A graduate of Harvard University’s School of Public Health and Universidad del Norte’s School of Medicine, Dr. Munar has been engaged in global health practice and research for the last 25 years. He began his career as a reformer of health systems in his native country, Colombia, where he served as a State Secretary of Health and then as Vice-Minister of Health. Afterwards, he worked with organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.