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Laura Espinoza-Pajuelo is the Program Manager at the QuEST Center in Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, she worked as a Research Project Coordinator at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru and the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy in Argentina, where she led the Non-Communicable Disease eCohort Project within the QuEST Latin America Network.

Her research focuses on informal payments in healthcare, population perceptions of service quality, and systematic reviews of patient-reported experiences. She has taught in the School of Public Health at UPCH and contributed as an early-career researcher to The Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems.

In 2024, she was selected as an Emerging Voices for Global Health fellow and presented her work at the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Nagasaki, Japan.

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