Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mendez is the assistant administrator for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development, a position he assumed in 2011. Prior, Pablos-Méndez served as managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he led its global health strategy on the transformation of health systems in Africa and Asia. He also served as director of knowledge management at the World Health Organization in Geneva, where he established WHO's first eHealth unit. Pablos-Méndez is a board-certified internist.