Dao Lan Huong is a senior health systems specialist at the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Human Development Unit, based in the Hanoi office in Viet Nam. She has over 25 years of experience in health system, health financing, and service delivery. At the World Bank, she has managed multiple lending projects focused on health system support and provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health on various topics such as health insurance and service delivery. Before joining the World Bank, she was a researcher at the Health Strategy and Policy Institute within the Ministry of Health of Viet Nam. She holds a medical degree from Hanoi Medical University and a PhD in public health from the Umea International School at Umea University in Sweden.