Chris Brown

Chris Brown

Head of Office, World Health Organization Italy
Image of Chris Brown

Chris Brown is Head of the WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development in Venice, Italy. She leads a multidisciplinary team supporting European health networks, national authorities, and partners to implement social, economic, gender and rights- based policies for health and health equity. Chris studied psychology at university with postgraduate qualifications in management and in public health. She spent 10 years working in health service commissioning and provider roles for regional and national health authorities in England before moving to work with international organisations where she has supported over 30 governments globally to develop policies for sustainable livelihoods, public health, and social inequities.
Chris currently leads the WHO European Regional Health Equity Status Initiative which provides policy makers with innovative and adaptable solutions to invest for health and leave no one behind. In the context of European recovery and resilience priorities, she is also leading the WHO European Well-being Economy Initiative which is convening central banks, health, finance and economic sectors around new economic policies and approaches to investing in well-being and health equity.
Chris is one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Global Leaders in Health Equity and a visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University in the United Kingdom.

Image of Chris Brown

Chris Brown

Head of Office, World Health Organization Italy

Chris Brown is Head of the WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development in Venice, Italy. She leads a multidisciplinary team supporting European health networks, national authorities, and partners to implement social, economic, gender and rights- based policies for health and health equity. Chris studied psychology at university with postgraduate qualifications in management and in public health. She spent 10 years working in health service commissioning and provider roles for regional and national health authorities in England before moving to work with international organisations where she has supported over 30 governments globally to develop policies for sustainable livelihoods, public health, and social inequities.
Chris currently leads the WHO European Regional Health Equity Status Initiative which provides policy makers with innovative and adaptable solutions to invest for health and leave no one behind. In the context of European recovery and resilience priorities, she is also leading the WHO European Well-being Economy Initiative which is convening central banks, health, finance and economic sectors around new economic policies and approaches to investing in well-being and health equity.
Chris is one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Global Leaders in Health Equity and a visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University in the United Kingdom.