Dr. Alarcos Cieza oversees the World Health Organization’s work on vision, hearing, disability, and rehabilitation related to policies, medical care and rehabilitation, community-based rehabilitation, assistive devices and technologies, data collection approaches, and capacity building. After obtaining her MSc in psychology in Madrid, Spain, she obtained a Master’s of Public Health and a Ph.D. in Medical Psychology from the Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich, Germany, where she led the research unit for over ten years at the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Pettenkofer School of Public Health.