Karen Codazzi Pereira is a PhD candidate in Public Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil. Her research focuses on health labor markets, and the impacts of wage policies on healthcare professionals. She is also a researcher at the Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde (IEPS) – in english Institute for Health Policy Studies. Before starting her PhD, Karen worked as an economic consultant in Brazil and as a social protection consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).