Jeanette Vega Morales

Jeanette Vega recently joined FONASA (Chilean National Health Fund) as Director. FONASA provides health coverage to more than 13.5 million people, without discrimination due to age, sex, income level, number of dependents or pre-existing conditions.

Before that Jeanette Vega was Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation where she lead the work in Health including development of strategy, implementation of the Foundation’s current Transforming Health Systems Initiative, and pursuit of new work in the field.

Before 2012, she served as Director of the of the Center of Public Health Policy at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile. Before that, she was Vice Minister of health in Chile, leading the country’s 13-step agenda for equity in health. In 2003, Vega served as a Director at the World Health Organization in Geneva, where she led the equity in health agenda, looking at the social determinants of health and health systems.

She started her career as a medical doctor in Chile specializing in Family Medicine and has a master’s degree in Public health from the Universidad de Chile and a Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago.