ENI BAKALLBASHI
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Master of Business Administration, May 2010
Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
Master of Public Administration, May 2010
Dual Degree
Bio and Resume (.pdf)
Eni Bakallbashi is interested in the role of social enterprise in health care and exploring economic avenues for public-private partnerships to increase health care in both industrialized and developing countries. Influenced by her mother’s work as a doctor, Eni has cultivated an understanding about health care mismanagement practices and access in the larger context of economic development.
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Georgetown University, Eni worked at the World Bank Group where she was named Best Junior Professional Associate for outstanding work across the Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP), Education (ED) and Social (SP) sectors. She also received a Spot Award for special effort and contribution to the completion of a review on World Bank’s output health and overall outputs. Her regular duties included monitoring the financial portfolio and performance of World Bank funded projects and assisting her team in improving the World Bank’s impact on health operations by increasing financial resources for health care access by marginalized and vulnerable groups in Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
Eni has utilized her multi-lingual skill by volunteering as a translator and adviser for the Whitman Walker AIDS Clinic in Washington, D.C., a pro bono legal service group advising people living with HIV/AIDS. Last summer, she was in Cameroon as part of a team evaluating the Multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS Project I, aimed at mitigating and preventing HIV/AIDS through community intervention and education. She conducted data analysis and worked with focus groups to analyze performance and develop recommendations for increasing and ensuring access to health services by rural and vulnerable populations.
Currently, Eni works at the Center for Health and Public Service Research at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, as part of the team that is evaluating the RWJF initiative aimed at improving cardiac care for racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States. She will also work at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, with the finance arm in conducting budget reviews and analysis at the Surgery department. Through this experience she hopes to learn more about the financing mechanisms used by hospitals for the provision of care, as well as understand the allocation process to ensure high quality and equitable provision of care.
Following completion of her degree, Eni plans to develop more efficient means for financing health care services through publicprivate partnerships. Her work will focus both on developing practical tools to realize this vision, and to see their large scale application through changes in health-care policy on national levels.