Elina Dale

Dale is the Principal Investigator (co-PI) for the ProtEqt Voice project, focusing on Kenya and Tanzania and is funded by the Research Council of Norway. In addition, Dale provides technical leadership for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s (NIPH) collaboration with Ukraine and supports the Institute’s engagement in Nepal, particularly on evidence-informed policy-making. Most recently, Dale co-led the research work on procedural fairness on health financing for universal health coverage, including conducting literature review, identifying partners and working with country teams to develop case studies, developing and delivering presentations to expert groups, drafting the outline and selected chapters for the final report. She appeared as a guest editor in the special issue of Health Policy and Planning on Procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage: why, what and how. Prior to joining NIPH, she served as a Health Policy Adviser in WHO Country Office in Ukraine where she led a health system team, managing specialists in primary care, public health, health technologies and pharmaceuticals, and health financing. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she led the essential health services pillar under the COVID-19 response plan as part of WHO country support. Before joining the Ukraine team, Dale worked in WHO – Geneva as a Health Financing Technical Officer, focused on strategic purchasing in health and health budgets. Dale completed her PhD at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where she also served as a post-doctoral fellow. Her doctoral dissertation focused on financial incentives, health worker motivation and quality of care.