The Pandemic Fund

Dr. Amparo Elena Gordillo-Tobar is a Senior Health Economist with over 15 years of experience as a Project Task Team Leader at the World Bank where she has prepared, managed, supervised and led innovative health financing investment Bank projects. Currently, Dr Gordillo-Tobar is the Senior Portfolio Manager for the Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank, where she oversees the advances on implementation of the Pandemic Fund Projects. 

Monica brings over a decade of experience in portfolio and office management at both country and corporate levels of the World Bank. A Brazilian national, she joined the institution in 2013 and has since supported a wide range of programs, most recently supporting analytic and operational tasks across the Health, Nutrition, and Population portfolio in West and Central Africa.

She holds an MBA in Economics and Government Relations, BS in International Relations, and Certificates from the University of Cape Town in Monitoring and Evaluation.

COMING SOON

COMING SOON

Receiving a diagnosis of Marburg hemorrhagic disease can be a death sentence, with a case fatality rate as high as 88 percent.  But Rwanda bucked that outcome in its Marburg outbreak response, achieving the lowest fatality rate ever recorded, thanks to swift action by the Government of Rwanda and timely support from the Pandemic Fund and other partners.

By Dr. Chatib Basri, Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, and Dr. Priya Basu

*This op-ed is adapted from an earlier version published in German in Tagesspiegel Background on May 19, 2025.