Dr Tomas Zapata is a health services and health workforce expert with more than 13 years of experience in policy advice, research and programme implementation, including long term international work with WHO, UNFPA and Doctors of the World based in Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Bangladesh and India. He has also provided short-term technical advise in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. For the past two years he is leading the Unit of Health Workforce and Health Services in the WHO Regional Office for Europe based in Copenhagen. He is a medical doctor specialized in Family Medicine in Spain.