This report was managed and prepared by Caroline Berchet, Lisbeth Waagstein, José Manuel Jerez Pombo and Frederico Guanais. Tom Raitzik Zonenschein contributed with research assistance. The authors wish to thank Stefano Scarpetta, Mark Pearson, Francesca Colombo, Eric Sutherland, Valentina Patrini and Marie‑Anne Valfort from the OECD Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, and Vincenzo Spiezia and Limor Shmerling Magazanik from the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation. Thanks also go to Gandia Robertson, Ignacio Mansilla and Anastasia Poorhassan from the Legal Department, to Lucy Hulett for editorial input, to Isabelle Vallard for administrative assistance and to Guillaume Haquin for resource management support.
This report has benefited from the expertise and material received from many health officials, health professionals, civil society and other health experts that the OECD review team interviewed during a fact-finding mission on 18‑21 March 2024, and bilateral teleconferences. The report also reflects information provided in February 2024 to the Accession Survey on Health Data Capacity, the Accession Review Policy Questionnaire, as well as the regular OECD Health Data Questionnaires received in April 2024.
The review team thank officials at the Ministry of Health, including Minister César Vásquez Sánchez (Minister of Health), Eric Peña Sánchez (Vice Minister of Public Health), Diego Sime Rendón (Deputy Executive for Bilateral Cooperation from the General Office of International Technical Cooperation in the Ministry of Health), Jimena Limay Castillo (Specialist in International Cooperation in the General Office of International Technical Cooperation in the Ministry of Health); officials at the Social Health Insurance EsSalud including María Elena Aguilar Del Águila (Executive President); officials at the National Superintendency of Health including Juan Carlos Velasco Guerrero (Superintendent), and other officials from the Vice-Ministry of Health Benefits and Insurance of the Ministry of Health, the Comprehensive Health Insurance (Seguro Integral de Salud) and the National Institute of Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud).
The review team are especially thankful to the General Office of International Technical Cooperation in the Ministry of Health and especially Jimena Gisella Limay Castillo, Sonia Hilser Vicuña, and Diego Sime Rendon. The Permanent Mission of Peru to the International Economic Organisations in Paris, especially Minister Counsellor Gerald Pajuelo Ponce, Minister Luis Mayaute Vargas, as well as Minister Giovanna Gómez Valdivia and Third Secretary Jairo Perez Santos from the Technical Secretariat of the PERU-OECD Multisectoral Commission provided support for the reviews. The reviews benefited from comments of the Peruvian authorities and experts who reviewed earlier drafts.