GHVISIONS - Key Persons
Amy MacIver has 20 years of public relations, crisis communications, media relations, and spokesperson training experience. Her expertise in global and public health has fostered deeper understanding of some of the world's most complex health and equity issues. Her areas of impact include: vaccine hesitancy, women's reproductive rights, innovations in global health, and breakthrough scientific research.
Amy has worked inside the global health and development community with foundations, nonprofits, and multilaterals to highlight and address challenges to some of the world's most vulnerable populations. Her work on crisis communications spans a wide spectrum of issues in global development, including vaccine hesitancy, political unrest, and public health crises in countries such as India, Myanmar, and North Korea.
She began her career in public relations coordinating campaigns for women's reproductive rights, international family planning, and environmental issues. She later served as Communications Director at PATH where she provided communications strategy across 13 country programs, managed the headquarters communications team, and trained 100+ leaders across the U.S., Uganda, India, Zambia, Vietnam, South Africa, and Myanmar in public speaking for media and business development.
Amy is a tireless advocate for equity.
Andrea is responsible for guiding GHV's financial and operational strategies, managing budgets, contracts and work plans as well as helping to advance the company's overall business functions. Her goal is to strengthen policies, processes and systems that enhance organizational impact.
She began her career in clinical therapy and social work and prior to joining GHV, dedicated over ten years to increase support and opportunities for women, children, and families. She transitioned those skills behind the scenes to continue to be an effective agent of change.
Andrea holds a Master in Clinical Counseling from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she also received a Bachelor in Psychology with a focus in Women's Studies.
Anna is a public health specialist who has worked for nearly a decade at the intersection of public health and human rights. She specializes in HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, GBV, and maternal health, with a focus on research, program management, and building partnerships. Her work, spanning eight countries, prioritizes centering patients as experts in their own lives. Prior to GHV, Anna was a consultant at Rabin Martin, working with clients on global health and women's rights. Anna previously served as Program Officer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health's Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program, where she worked on a reproductive justice-framed study in partnership with Black mothers and communities of color to understand racial disparities and (dis)respectful care in maternal health in New York City and Atlanta. Previously, Anna was with the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights in Cameroon, project-managing and coordinating a study on HIV and GBV care for female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and injecting drug users. Anna also worked as a Global Health Corps fellow at Population Council in Zambia, where she coordinated a program on abortion safety.
Job Titles:
- Managing Consultant
- GHV Consultant
Anna Lucas is a GHV consultant based in Barcelona, Spain working with the Povax team on country engagement, including for HPV vaccine introduction. Previously she was with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health(ISGlobal) where she coordinated the Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health Initiative managing a portfolio of research and knowledge translation projects and activities (i.e. capacity building, policy and advocacy) with focus on infectious diseases in sub Saharan Africa. Prior to that Anna worked with the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), the Catalan Department of Health, and HLSP Consulting. She has worked in global health for 20 years and has extensive experience in research management, project management, advocacy and communications. Anna holds a bachelor's and master's in Law and a Master's degree in Public and Social Policy from Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. She speaks several languages including Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese.
Annette Devereaux comes to GHV with 10+ years' experience specializing in strategy, project management, and stakeholder engagement. Her work in the international development sector also includes extensive experience in advocacy, communications, and fundraising. Annette previously served as the Director of Development at The ONE Campaign, where she designed high-level partnerships and projects, managed ONE's stakeholder network, and most recently lead the organization's corporate partnership portfolio. In this role she developed strategies to cultivate, manage, and steward corporate partners at the $1 million+ level, executing high-impact partnership activations including executive and employee engagement programs.
Aubrey Cody's impactful work in global health and development spans over 17 years. She has experience in the areas of women's and children's health; communicable and noncommunicable diseases; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); as well as humanitarian aid. Her expertise is in organizational assessment and strategic guidance, stakeholder engagement, coalition building, advocacy strategy development, and meeting development and facilitation.
Aubrey has designed and supported the implementation of innovative strategies and programs across a diverse range of issues for clients including Save the Children US, IntraHealth International, the International Rescue Committee, the Noncommunicable Disease Alliance(NCDA), the White Ribbon Alliance, AVAC, the UN Joint Global Programme (UNJGP) on Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control, and the Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of NCDs (GCM/NCD), among others.
For the past four years, Aubrey has supported the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, advising teams in reaching policy, advocacy, and communications objectives. Aubrey has supported key initiatives and strategies at the foundation including a parliamentarian landscaping, the Indonesia country strategy, and the Asia Pacific malaria strategy. Aubrey also currently manages GHV's WASH; Africa advocacy;Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, GlobalFinancing Facility and Gavi; and Malaria portfolios with the foundation.
Aubrey served as the Secretariat for two global coalitions - Cervical Cancer Action for Elimination (CCAE) and the Taskforce on Women and NCDs - for seven years.In these roles, Aubrey provided various services from coordinating partner roles and designing and executing global advocacy campaigns to developing technical resources for in-country partners.
Aubrey has co-authored numerous publications including: The Vitality of Forests: Illustrating the Evidence Connecting Forests and Human Health; Charting a Path to Impact: Accelerating progress in partnership with parliamentarians; Progress in Cervical CancerPrevention: The CCA Report Card 2015; A Call to Action: Girls and Adolescents; and the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children: Country Studies. She has field experience in Afghanistan, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Aubrey holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Beth has worked in global health and development for over 15 years, with an emphasis on strategic advocacy and policy change efforts. She has deep knowledge of tobacco control, non-communicable diseases, urban agriculture and food systems, and extensive experience with strategic planning, grant analysis, messaging, and monitoring, learning, and evaluation, and fundraising.
Since joining Global Health Visions as a senior consultant in 2021 and previously as consultant from 2010-2015, Beth has provided strategic guidance to clients in the areas of COVID, tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, as well as in cross-cutting realms such as civil society capacity building, monitoring, learning and evaluation, and accountability systems. During this time, she has worked extensively for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, advising and supporting a range of teams and initiatives in reaching their policy, advocacy, and communications objectives.
Prior to rejoining GHV, Beth was an interim senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and consulted for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Montclair State University, Sports Illustrated, and others. Beth is also the director of Montclair Community Farms.
Beth holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a Bachelor of Science in International Business from Fairfield University.
Caitlyn Mitchell brings nearly fifteen years of experience working in international development with an emphasis on grassroots and advocacy campaigning. Her areas of expertise include strategy development and planning, messaging, and tactics; working with issue experts on policy documents and outcomes; collaborating with country and global teams to create compelling actions for members in support of policy action; supporting the creation of campaign materials to effectively engage and communicate to target audiences; overseeing the creation and implementation of influencer strategies; and managing the process for engaging CSOs and partners.
Previously at the ONE Campaign, Caitlyn led ONE's measurement, evaluation and learning (MEL) portfolio and along with her team, developed a MEL framework focused on influencing policy and the political process, mobilizing the public, influencing popular culture, and CSO engagement. She managed global policy and advocacy campaigns in addition to leading the annual planning process for the organization. Caitlyn helped launch the Girls and Women program at ONE which was dedicated to creating awareness to ensure that the issues girls and women face around the world were visible on the development agendas of policymakers and leaders. She has worked with various organizations-including the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) and Harvard's Global Health Institute (HGHI) -to lead vision and mission casting, develop Theories of Change and strategic plans, and create action plans and monitoring and accountability mechanisms to support the work. Caitlyn is passionate about helping organizations clarify their vision and turning big, audacious goals into action and ultimately, help them operate more efficiently and equitably.
Caitlyn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Languages and holds certifications in project management and measurement, evaluation, and learning.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of People and Culture
Cambria brings over 15 years of experience supporting organizations to build teams and spaces that are delightful, people centered, and mission aligned. She has worked with and led teams focused on leadership development, disaster relief, housing, education, and entrepreneurship.
As Principal Consultant of Cambria Diane Consulting, Cambria supports executive leaders with talent development, strategic visioning, and programmatic redesign. Her coaching and facilitation is grounded in human centered design, lean startup methodology, and emergent strategy. Cambria Diane Consulting focuses on supporting mission driven organizations and has worked with a range of clients who specialize in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), workforce development, transformative justice, and conservation.
Previously, Cambria spent almost a decade supporting community based education entrepreneurs at 4.0 Schools. As Chief of Staff, she led the team through the creation of new human capital systems and role redesigns, while transitioning the organization's decision making and accountability structures. As a member of the founding team, she built, facilitated, and coordinated the dual city expansion of the Essentials program, which supported over 975 early stage education entrepreneurs in over 40 states to pilot their ideas with their communities. Cambria continues to support education leaders through her consulting clients and as a board member at Capital Learning Academy, a micro school based in Washington, D.C. Prior to 4.0, she managed logistics and AmeriCorps training at Rebuilding Together New Orleans to support the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina.
Cambria has called New Orleans home for the past 15 years with her husband and two young kids who are all anxiously awaiting the return of Jazz Fest. When she's not out adventuring with her little crew, she's most likely tinkering on another renovation project for their 100 year old house, working on their next Mardi Gras costumes or trying to psych herself up for half marathon #4.
Carly Williams is a public health professional with nine years of experience working across private, government, and non-profit sectors. Her experience spans master's level provision of direct patient care to global, systemic interventions with national and international partners and organizations focused on stakeholder engagement, programmatic intervention, strategic planning, and policy and advocacy. Most recently, her work has focused on immunization strategies and relationship management with multi-lateral global funds. Her expertise is multifaceted and encompasses project management, stakeholder engagement strategies, multidisciplinary team management, and support to high profile and high net worth leaders and teams in fast paced environments working to deliver complex global health interventions. She has specialized training in child and adolescent mental health as well as compassionate and culturally informed partnership with marginalized populations at risk or victim of sexual violence and domestic violence.
During her 20-year career in journalism and the humanitarian sector, Challiss McDonough has worked in more than 40 countries on four continents, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa.
She spent 10 years working in communications for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), most recently leading communications, advocacy and outreach efforts in the United States from her base in Washington, D.C. For six years,she was WFP's chief communications officer in sub-Saharan Africa, based in Nairobi, and led WFP's communications team through a number of devastating humanitarian crises in the region, including famines in Somalia and South Sudan. Challiss began serving with WFP in Afghanistan in 2009. Before that, she was a Voice of America regional correspondent and bureau chief based in Johannesburg and Cairo, covering crises that included the AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa, the early years of the war in Iraq, and the 2006 conflict in southern Lebanon.
Challiss attended public schools and universities in Virginia, California and North Carolina. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her fiancé and two adopted Kenyan street dogs.
Chase has worked in international development for the past eight years, specializing in applied systems thinking to help his clients solve challenges at the intersection of food, planetary, and human health. Through more than two dozen projects working on these topics Chase has advised a variety of institutional partners including multilateral lenders, bilateral donors, foundations, international NGOs, and governments.
With extensive experience on food systems, climate change, and resilience planning, Chase brings perspectives from diverse fields to inform adaptive and forward looking strategies to help his clients grapple with the problems they want to solve. Most recently he provided strategy support to the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition on their COVID-19 response and Making Markets Work program, and to the Rockefeller Foundation on the Food System Vision Prize.
Chase has a Master's of Urban Planning from George Washington University, and a B.S. in Political Science from Florida State University.
Chris Hobbs has dedicated his career to building and developing systems that strengthen communities, improve health, protect the planet, and address inequities. His expertise is in creating operating environments and mobilizing resources that allow changemakers to achieve ambitious social impact. As Chief Operating Officer, Chris helps bring the vision and strategy of Global Health Visions to life by ensuring the organization's resources, systems, and processes are optimized for impact.
D'Arcy Minehane has worked in International Development for the past 5 years as a Senior Program Assistant in the Gates Foundation responsible for management of the Berlin based European Director of the Donor Government Relations (DGR) team within the Global Policy and Advocacy(GPA) team. D'Arcy has previously worked at Deloitte Consulting London and PwC Private Clients Perth.
D'Arcy holds a BA in International Insurance and European studies from the University of Limerick and an MBA from Central Saint Martins, London. D'Arcy is interested in learning, understanding, and supporting the work of building amore inclusive International Development sector and chose to base her MBA project on the topic of Diversity in UK based offices of large International Development Organisations.
D'Arcy has recently moved back to West Cork with her partner and daughter.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Project Manager
Demilade Osoteku is a highly accomplished managementconsultant and project manager with a decade of experience leading projects andprograms in evidence-based strategy development, monitoring, evaluation, datasystems, healthcare financing, and digital health. His expertise spans a widerange of sectors, including routine immunization, primary healthcare,nutrition, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and WASH, across diverse geographic regions suchas Asia, MENA, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Through thought leadership and collaboration withgovernments, donors, and implementing partners, Demilade has conductedextensive program diagnostics to inform evidence-driven strategies. Thesediagnostics have been pivotal in designing and implementing multi-year programsthat have yielded improved outcomes in various sectors. He has successfullymobilized innovative financing through rigorous fiscal space analyses,strengthened governments' leadership and coordination capacities, and enhancedhealth systems. His contributions to projects funded by renowned organizationslike the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, USAID, FCDO, GAVI, theGlobal Fund, and PEPFAR have driven positive change.
Demilade's expertise also extends to digital health, wherehe has led impactful programs leveraging technology to enhance processes,monitoring, oversight, and overall health outcomes. He has spearheadedinitiatives involving digitized data collection, claims management systems forhealth insurance, innovative approaches to improving data quality, and thedevelopment of visualization dashboards. Throughout these endeavors, heprioritizes safety, confidentiality, and privacy, ensuring the responsible useof technology in the healthcare context.
Demilade holds a Master of Science in Public Policy fromUniversity College London. His skills and experience make him a valuable assetin driving successful projects encompassing strategy, monitoring andevaluation, healthcare financing, and digital health innovation.
Emily comes to Global Health Visions with nearly 15 years of experience working on development and international policy. Having worked in government, the private sector, and at an NGO, Emily has a broad view of the policymaking process.
Prior to GHV, Emily was the U.S. Policy Director for the ONE Campaign, a global movement campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease. There, she worked closely with colleagues to develop strategies for engagement around priority issues, including budget and appropriations for international development funding, global health policy, energy for development, and inclusive economic growth. Previously, Emily worked at the National Security Council in the Africa Directorate, where she managed a wide variety of U.S. policy processes, including trade (AGOA), health (PEPFAR), and education.
Emily holds a master's degree from Catholic University of America in World Politics and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Miami University (Ohio).
During the past 15 years, Ilana has worked across a range of issues in global health and international development. These include; combatting the HIV, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics, strengthening health systems, and increasing access to education globally. As a Senior Consultant at GHV, she brings experience in policy and strategy development, program management, monitoring and evaluation, multilateral governance mechanisms, and facilitating strategic partnerships.
Throughout Ilana's career she has taken on a diversity of roles. She began her career as a Program Manager with the Clinton Health Access Initiative where she was seconded into the Ministry of Health in Mozambique to support lab systems strengthening. Later, she managed large technical assistance projects while at PEPFAR; served as Advisor to the Minister of Health in Lesotho in her capacity as Vice Chair of the Global Fund Board; and developed the Global Fund's 5-year strategy as a Strategy and Policy Advisor in the Office of the Global Fund's Executive Director. Immediately prior to joining GHV, Ilana took a break from her work in global health and spent four years at the World Bank focused on increasing access to quality education globally.
Ilana has lived on five continents and worked in more than 20 countries, and holds a Master in Public Health from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Smith College.
James is a global health and development professional with experience in communications, advocacy, program management, stakeholder engagement, and event facilitation. His areas of expertise include LGBTQIA+ health care, immunization, and infectious diseases.
At Global Health Visions, James largely focuses on cholera and meningitis. James supports the World Health Organization's Global Task Force on Cholera Control(GTFCC), the GTFCC Country Support Platform hosted at IFRC, and the Wellcome Trust in their cholera elimination efforts, as well as the World Health Organization's Meningitis Technical Task Force. James also supports several advocacy and communications teams at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including vaccines, enteric and diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, polio, and tobacco control.
James previously served as the Assistant Director of Performance Improvement for NYCHealth + Hospitals, where he managed clinical improvement efforts and served asa system-wide communications liaison. Prior to this, James worked for a network of federally qualified health centers, where he drafted and procured grants for LGBTQIA+ health care access and built legal-medical partnerships within state and federal court systems.
James is a former Peace Corps volunteer, having spent a year in Ukraine working with PEPFAR and USAID on health reform, HIV/AIDS prevention, and human trafficking interventions. He began his career as a consultant for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Grand Challenges" initiatives, the Exxon Mobil Foundation's malaria portfolio, and the UN Foundation's "Free and Equal" campaign.
James holds a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the CUNY School of Public Health, a Master of Arts in Politics from The New School for Social Research, and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Eugene Lang College.
James speaks English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.
Job Titles:
- Manager
- Engagement Manager
For over ten years, Jessica has worked with purpose-driven organizations to create social impact with a primary focus on the health, empowerment, and well-being of women and girls. She brings extensive experience in partner engagement, strategic communications, policy and advocacy, and board relations. Jessica currently works with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the Gender Equality Division and recently provided support for the UNFPA Supplies Partnership as the agency's flagship thematic fund transitioned to and launched Phase III of the programme.
At theUnited Nations Foundation, Jessica served as a founding member of the FP2020 Secretariat, supporting efforts to design and establish the architecture of the global partnership from its inception. As part of the executive leadership team, Jessica was responsible for overseeing and coordinating FP2020's engagement across critical areas including partner relations, Reference Group management, commitment mobilization, and executing the teams' flagship events. Before her tenure at FP2020, Jessica worked on the Girls and Women team and contributed to the design and implementation of the United Nation Foundation's program priorities and collaborative initiatives with NGO partners, the US government, UN agencies, and the private sector. Before entering the world of global health and gender equality, Jessica spent three years working in the financial sector for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
Jessica holds a MA in Public Policy with a concentration in International Development from American University and a BA in Government and Politics with a concentration in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland. In 2020, Jessica earned a PMP certification from the Project Management Institute and is currently enrolled in an executive program at the Center for Social Impact Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (expected completion August2021).
Jessie has worked in global health and human rights for over 20 years, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. She has extensive experience in philanthropy, grantmaking, and program design and evaluation. Deeply committed to meaningfully engaging local communities to address structural and systemic barriers to social change, Jessie leverages her skills in listening to, learning from, and co-creating solutions with local partners to advance human rights. She has worked with civil society organizations, governments, research institutions and activists in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
For eight years, Jessie led the design and implementation of a multi-million dollar grantmaking program to advance women's rights at the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC). She oversaw programming for over 45 grantee partners in approximately 20 countries. During her time at IWHC, she drove a 66% increase in the grantmaking budget, and expanded the portfolio into new regions and thematic areas. Following the June 2021acquisition of IWHC by Fós Feminista - an intersectional feminist alliance advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, girls, and gender-diverse people - Jessie has served as the senior executive charged with integrating IWHC programming into the new Alliance. Prior to IWHC,Jessie worked as a Program Officer for International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR), where she provided distance and on-site capacity building support on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights to partners Associations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A native English speaker, Jessie has full professional fluency in Spanish. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. She lives in New York City with her partner and two kids.
Job Titles:
- Managing Consultant
- Consultant With Global Health Visions
- Leader and Strategist
Kaitlin is an effective leader and strategist with more than fifteen years of experience in program leadership and management, global health policy and advocacy, strategy development, and coalition building. She has leveraged her years of experience working with government stakeholders, nonprofits, universities and research institutions, and the for-profit sector in multiple geographies to produce meaningful collaborations and program impact across a range of topics.
As a consultant with Global Health Visions, Kaitlin supports policy and advocacy efforts to drive effective change on a range of topics, including reproductive health and immunization. She also supports other partners on family planning advocacy, development of resources to aid immunization programs, and building effective approaches to scale equitable COVID-19 vaccine introduction.
Previously, Kaitlin served as the Vice President for Vaccine Acceptance and Demand at the Sabin Vaccine Institute. In this role, she oversaw several program areas: educating media and health care professionals on vaccines and immunization, supporting community-level social and behavioral research to understand vaccine acceptance and hesitancy, and enhancing understanding of social media influence on vaccination decisions.
Kaitlin also held several leadership positions at PATH, including directing a global contraceptive product introduction project, serving as the interim Chief of Staff and interim Director of Policy and Advocacy, leading the Global Health Technologies Coalition, managing several strategy development initiatives, and supporting developing countries in evidence-based policymaking and preparing for new vaccine introduction.
Kaitlin holds a Master of Public Health from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Virginia Tech.
Katy Bumpus is a global health professional with 10+ years of experience working across private, government and non-profits sectors with expertise in advocacy, strategy development, stakeholder engagement, program strategy and research, particularly in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH). Most recently, Katy served as the Senior Business and Organizational Development Officer at White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) where she led global organizational strengthening efforts and played an active role in WRA's partnership and business development. Prior to WRA, Katy spent eight years at the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation working with their Executive, Global Policy and Advocacy, and Maternal Newborn and Child Health teams focusing on strategy development, stakeholder engagement, program implementation, and key advocacy deliverables. She has supported projects and staff in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Katy has also worked on U.S. policy at state and national levels.
Katy received her Master of Public Policy degree from King's College London and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from the University of Kansas.
Job Titles:
- Creative Innovation Strategist and Project Manager
- Engagement Manager
Kelly Connors is a colorful and creative innovation strategist and project manager, passionate about gender equity and international development with 10+ years of professional work experience both in the U.S. and abroad. Kelly has a Master's in Business Administration and a Master's in Public Policy as well as experience in management consulting in both the public and private sector giving her a balanced view of working with public and private actors to solve complex problems.
Prior to coming to GHV, Kelly spent the last 2+ years at Deloitte Consulting, where she managed human-centered design and innovation strategy projects, primarily for global health care companies. At Deloitte, Kelly worked with researchers, designers and strategists to conduct ethnographic and behavioral research to understand complex problems and inform designs of new services or products to greatly improve their experiences. Kelly was also a part of Deloitte's equity-centered design group, developing design methods to ensure diversity is thoughtfully analyzed as a part of the design process. In 2018, Kelly published research in an article, "Designing Equality", which was circulated through the Wall Street Journal on how human-centered design can be used to reduce the impacts of implicit gender bias in the workplace.
On a personal level, Kelly is an avid outdoor enthusiast and runner. She has run over 10 marathons, including multiple Boston marathons and recently climbed Kilimanjaro.
South African born Kevin`s over 25 year career in public health and policy includes experience in pioneering major projects and approaches in shaping responses particularly towards sexual and reproductive health and HIV linkages at the policy, systems and service delivery levels as well as a focus on key and other priority populations.
He has extensive experience in managing diverse teams and supporting large-scale advocacy and service delivery initiatives through his previous roles as the chief of party for the PEPFAR- and USAID-supported key population focused LINKAGES project in Washington, DC, as the South Africa Country Director for PATH and as the International Planned Parenthood Federation's Global HIV Advisor in London. Most recently he served as the Executive Director of the International AIDS Society in Geneva.
With a background in education and human rights, Kevin has in particular managed a number of national and regional programs -particularly across Africa- by forging sustainable partnerships with government, communities, UN agencies, the private sector and donor stakeholders. Many of these have also focused on addressing the structural barriers that impede service access. The PLHIV Stigma Index - which is now routinely used as a tool to capture changes in HIV- related stigma and which has been applied in over 45 countries - was his brainchild.
Kevin who has BA ( Hons) from Rhodes University and an HDE is passionate about ensuring that policies and strategies make a tangible difference in the lives of those whose voices are either seldom heard, listened to or discounted.
Kristen has worked in global health and development for the past 17 years, with an emphasis on strategic advocacy, accountability, and policy change efforts for women's and children's health. She has deep knowledge in immunization as well as broad experience with strategic planning and execution of advocacy and communications efforts.
Since joining Global Health Visions in 2012, Kristen has worked extensively for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, providing strategic guidance and support to foundation advocacy and communications teams including family planning; maternal, newborn and child health; tobacco control; water, sanitation and hygiene; enteric and diarrheal diseases; pneumonia; and global delivery programs. As part of this support, she has often focused on cross-cutting realms such as resource mobilization, health systems strengthening, issue integration, civil society coordination and capacity strengthening, and accountability systems.
For the past five years, she has worked in depth on immunization, playing a role in the successful resource mobilization efforts for Gavi 5.0 and the COVAX facility. She also works in particular depth on cholera elimination, supporting the efforts of the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) secretariat at the World Health Organization, the GTFCC Country Support Platform at IFRC, the Gates Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust. Kristen has also worked as a consultant for organizations including the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the Paul Allen Foundation, several WHO teams, and the UN Population Fund.
Prior to joining GHV, she worked as Director for the City University of New York's Institute for Health Equity, helping to support the capacity of community-based organizations and developing a multi-year research initiative to uncover causes of persistently high infant mortality in the South Bronx. She started her career at the United Nations Association of the USA - a grassroots organization of Americans dedicated to championing the UN system, supported by the UN Foundation.
Kristen holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Haverford College.
Lakshmi Prasad is a public health professional with expertise and experience in project management, program development, and community-based participatory research in the U.S. and India. She is passionate about supporting the translation of data and evidence into practice and equitable programming and policy-making to promote equity and population health.
Lakshmi previously served as the lead Project Manager for two complex Learning Networks based at the Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. She provided operational, project management, and strategic planning support for these quality improvement science initiatives focused on reducing infant mortality and improving child health outcomes. Lakshmi helped to grow both these Learning Networks by organizing and strengthening the networks' infrastructures and communications processes. She worked closely with network leads, funders, hospital leadership, and key partners to support and facilitate strategic planning, goal setting, and reporting efforts. On both networks, she led and supervised staff through ambiguous assignments, navigated complicated leadership structures, and worked with aplomb in fast-paced settings. She also served as the Disease Prevention Director for the county health department where she oversaw its Tuberculosis Control, HIV/STI Prevention, Immunizations, and Children with Medical Handicaps programs and led the division's re-structuring and re-organizing efforts.
Lakshmi earned her master's in public health from The Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
Lydia is a global public health epidemiologist, community engagement specialist, and program manager. She previously served as the program manager for Eastern Virginia Medical School Global Health and as a researcher at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. She has more than 6 years of experience managing institution and grant-funded projects, key systems and logistics, and building collaborative partnerships. She has worked as a public health practitioner throughout the Americas, North Africa, and Southwest Asia.
Lydia lives in Virginia, where she serves on the Virginia Community Capacity Initiative (VCCI), with the Virginia Consortium for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies (VCRMDS), and on the Committee for Virtual Reality Curricula Development at the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters (CHKD).
Lydia holds a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology, a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and is pursuing her Ph.D. in International Studies with concentrations in Modeling and Simulation and International Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of health, equity, and migration. She has a special interest in community-based participatory modeling for equity-oriented research, for which she has won grant funding. She works on every project with the goal of pursuing equity through evidence- and community-based practice.
Lydia speaks English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- International Development Specialist
- Maruchi Wotogbe / Senior Consultant
- Reviewer for the Vaccine
Maruchi is an international development specialist with over 11 years of experience leading the design and implementation of health system transformation and performance improvement programs in the public and private sector. His career journey has seen him become a trusted advisor to governments at the national and sub-national levels, global donor organizations and international development partners on multiple global health and research programs that cut across immunization, Maternal Newborn and Child Health(MNCH), nutrition, Polio, Malaria, and HIV/AIDS. He brings significant breadth and depth of experience, from the non-profit sector to the government to the private sector which he leans on to facilitate the collaborative design and implementation of sustainable solutions for improved financing and delivery of public health programs.
Maruchi is a peer reviewer for the Vaccine journal where he provides expert reviews on vaccine delivery-focused manuscripts seeking to be published as articles on the journal. He is also actively involved in his city, Ottawa, where he serves on the Board of Directors of a local non-profit, Epilepsy Ottawa, providing strategic advice to facilitate the organization's goals of providing support to persons living with Epilepsy and their families to live life to the fullest, without stigma and barriers.
Mehreen Shahid is a development practitioner with over 10 years of experience in health, education, gender equality, social protection and public-private partnerships, among other sectors. She is the founder of the Safe Delivery Safe Mother (SDSM) organization, that provides essential and life-saving maternal and reproductive healthcare services in the rural, remote and low-resource communities of Pakistan.
She has implemented successful public-private partnership delivery models that strengthen public health systems, designed training curriculums, developed strategy and monitoring and evaluation frameworks, launched digital data reporting tools, conducted advocacy campaigns and built capacity of community health workers and skilled birth attendants. She also advises governments and clients in Pakistan and abroad on health systems, public education, and private sector engagement to enhance social impact.
Previously, she has worked at the Clinton Foundation, the World Bank, and McKinsey & Company in Pakistan, the U.S., the UK, and the Middle East. She has in-depth experience with strategy development, program implementation and impact assessments across the private, social and public sectors. Academically, she has a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, and is the recipient of the prestigious Annemarie Schimmel Scholarship, which is awarded to one Pakistani woman annually. She holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance (major) and Social Sciences (minor) from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
She is an alumna of the Global Health Corps Fellowship and was the first Pakistani to ever be selected in 2015. She was the first and only Pakistani woman selected among 30 women globally for the Forbes Ignite Fellowship in 2021 to solve critical public health challenges. She has spoken at prominent national and global platforms on women's rights, social justice, gender equity, and maternal health at the University of Oxford, Johns Hopkins University, the WHO's Implementation Best Practice (IBP) network, Women Leaders in Global Health conferences, the PUSH campaign, and the Girl Summit; and is also a TEDx speaker.
Michelle is a self-starter, passionate, and collaborative freelance consultant working with philanthropy and non-profits at the intersection of strategy, learning, execution, and impact. She has over a decade of experience in social impact working on agriculture, energy and climate. Prior to starting Quibell Consulting LLC, Michelle worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for six years, most recently serving as the Senior Portfolio Officer for the Agricultural Development team. While there, she led strategy development and planning, operations and process improvement, partnership development, internal communications and knowledge management, and monitoring and learning initiatives. As a generalist, she sought to bridge technical teams for greater collaboration and more intentionally connect the strategy, grant development and management, monitoring and learning processes for improved adaptive management. Prior to the foundation, she worked as a Strategy Consultant for Accenture for 4 years delivering projects on customer experience and digital strategy, customer analytics and segmentation, and new product and service design for electric and gas utility clients. She also have experience in climate policy and advocacy at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Michelle has an MBA and MS in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!)and a BA in Environmental Studies from Yale University. She lives with her husband, two children, and dog in Seattle, WA.
Miguel is a Mexican public health professional with over 20 years' experience in the design and implementation of innovation in the areas of vaccinology, maternal and child health, epidemiological surveillance, and public health emergencies, in national and subnational government institutions as well as in the philanthropic sector. The focus of his work has always been the improvement of health conditions with emphasis in disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in his home country and other countries in Latin America.
Before working as a full-time independent consultant in public health, Dr. Betancourt-Cravioto served in high level positions in the Federal Ministry of Health of Mexico leading areas of epidemiological surveillance, and preparedness and response to public health emergencies and disasters. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing and implementing nationwide the bioterrorism and pandemic influenza preparedness plans.
In the social sector, he coordinated for over a decade, the international projects and alliances of the Carlos Slim Foundation focusing on the development and implementation of innovation in maternal and child health, vaccinology, genomics and neglected tropical diseases, in Mexico and Latin America. As coordinator of international alliances in health he was responsible for liaising with other funding and implementing organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, theInter-American Development Bank, the International Vaccine Institute, UNICEF, the Carter Center, ISGlobal, PATH, and DNDi, as well as governments of Central and South American countries.
In this role, the main projects developed were the Mesoamerican Health Initiative, the RegionalInitiative for Malaria Elimination in Central America, the Mexican DigitalVaccination Card, and the first therapeutic vaccine against Chagas disease. In these projects he was part of multidisciplinary and multi-organization high level teams for the design and implementation of the interventions including negotiating and securing project funding and funding mechanisms, the design of measurement, learning and evaluation strategies, and the evaluation and follow-up of interventions on the field.
In the area of digital health, he designed and took forward the proof of concept and the implementation in Mexico of the Electronic Vaccination Record, technological platform for the comprehensive management of national and subnational immunization programs. The platform operated in 17 states of Mexico with the registry of over 2 million children and their immunization records.
He also developed the Interactive Platform for On-line Training in Health, a distance learning system in Spanish language which successfully graduated over 15,000 health professionals in Latin America during the last decade.
Dr. Betancourt-Cravioto obtained his MD at La Salle University in Mexico City and trained as a pediatrician at the Mexico City Children's Hospital. He earned a Master's Degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing, and a Doctorate inPublic Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Health Systems Strengthening Specialist
Ms. Joyce Kyalo is a skilled and well experienced Health Systems Strengthening specialist focusing on programme delivery using systems perspective. She has provided technical assistance to governments, particularly Ministries of Health (MoHs) on health policy formulation, planning, budgeting, monitoring, review and learning. Her technical and managerial roles for over the last 20 years have provided her with an in-depth understanding of the health systems challenges faced in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa, enabling her to design and manage broad-impact public and private health sector projects.
Joyce has experience in providing technical assistance to host government projects and teams, working with bilateral and multilateral partners, engaging at the global level on a wide range of health issues, most recently engaging on the Global Financing Facility mechanism, health financing, Public financial management, health systems strengthening within a devolved context, domestic resource mobilization, Advocacy, civil society engagement and social accountability, with a focus on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH-N) continuum of care as well as other disease areas such as HIV and NTDs.
Additionally, Joyce has also provided technical assistance on private sector engagement on strengthening supply chain management and HIV service expansion through the private-for-profit sector. She has also conceptualized successful health market-based solutions using making markets work for the poor (M4P) approach.
Joyce holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc), double Mathematics and Chemistry major, a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) majoring in Finance, and a Master's in Public Health (MPH), majoring in Health Systems Strengthening, Health Economics, Policy and Planning, all from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
In 2008, Nejla Liias founded Global Health Visions (GHV) to provide strategic guidance on the formulation and implementation of global health and development initiatives that aim to improve the lives and livelihoods of women and children. Nejla recognized a need in the industry to provide access to exceptional consultants who could offer guidance on a range of development issues for short- and long-term projects. With a deliberate focus on advocacy, policy, and communication, GHV is a virtual team of consultants all over the globe that brings a wealth of expertise, innovative analysis, and targeted solutions to various organizations in the health and development sectors.
Job Titles:
- Director of Strategy, Learning, and Innovation
Rahima Dosani spent the last five years at USAID's Global Health Bureau, where she worked as a Senior Advisor in the Center for Innovation and Impact (CII). At USAID, Rahima focused on increasing market access to innovative global health commodities, including medicines, diagnostics, vaccines, and new service delivery approaches. She used cross-cutting approaches to improve supply and demand barriers to market access, including digital health, human-centered design, private sector engagement, innovative financing, market shaping, and strategic planning. Rahima also served as the Director for Programs on the COVID-19 Task Force in 2020 and was asked to spend six months as a Senior Health Advisor for USAID's Asia Regional Bureau in 2021 to improve COVID vaccine delivery and strategic partnerships.
Rahima has also worked extensively to improve DEIA at an organization-wide level as well as more broadly in the field of global health. She launched USAID's decolonization in global health work, was a founding member of the Global Health Bureau's Anti-Discrimination Council, developed CII's DEIA strategy, and co-authored a white paper on decolonization in global health.
Prior to joining USAID, Rahima was a strategy and management consultant working across a range of industries and countries. She worked at FSG, a social impact consulting firm, where she advised large global health and development organizations on strategy, DEIA, and partnerships. She also worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Malawi, where she led programs to accelerate the introductions of new vaccines into the country and also the scale up of point-of-care diagnostics for HIV. Rahima helped launch CHAI's office in Myanmar, where she led programs for MDR-TB diagnostics and pediatric HIV. She began her career as a management consultant for public sector and healthcare organizations at PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory in New York City. Rahima holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPH in Global Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a BA, summa cum laude, in GlobalHealth and Healthcare Management from the University of Pennsylvania.
On a personal level, Rahima is passionate about creating art, performing spoken word, playing volleyball, and teaching yoga. She has also worked as a private chef. Rahima has lndian, Pakistani, and Kenyan roots and has lived and worked in many countries in the Global South. She is extremely excited to join the GHV family.
Ramatoulie is a passionate community health advocate and public health professional with over eight years of experience in advocacy, program management, and behavioral science research. Her areas of expertise include community health promotion, outbreak disease surveillance, Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), and HIV/AIDS program implementation.
Prior to joining GHV as a Senior Consultant, Ramatoulie worked as a Program Officer with the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), where she worked on the LoveAlliance project, a 5-year program committed to protecting and promoting SRHR globally and bringing together key populations and communities of people living with HIV (PLHIV). She also worked as a Stigma Index Researcher at GNP+, providing technical assistance and capacity building to in-country partners implementing the PLHIV Stigma Index 2.0 tool. Ramatoulie began her career working in HIV/AIDS as an HIV/AIDS case manager in Minnesota, U.S.A, before serving as a Global Health Corps fellow with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) in Kigali, Rwanda. She later joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supporting the surveillance of the Ebola epidemic and supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) for polio eradication in Guinea. As a Consultant, Ramatoulie has worked on various projects in the USA and across West and Central Africa, including women's empowerment, demographic dividend in the Sahel, and youth access to family planning services.
Ramatoulie holds an MPH in Community Health Promotion, with an interdisciplinary focus on global health, from the University of Minnesota, and a dual B.A. in Biology and French from the College of Saint Catherine, Minnesota. Ramatoulie is a Pan African Women in Health champion and mentor.
Rebekah has over 6 years of experience in operations and administrative roles. She comes from a diverse background of working in multiple different industries, from a group operations director at an architecture firm to a business assistant at an artistic ice sculpture company. She began her career as an operatic performer and discovered her passion of operations a couple of years ago. Her future career goals are to someday be a COO or Operations Director.
She strives to maintain flexibility, multi-tasking and utilizing strong communication skills to convey well with other staff members and employees. She is dedicated to maintaining multiple workflows and possesses excellent time management. Her goal is to take her previous and wide-range knowledge and apply this to providing insight, awareness, and assistance within the GHV operations team. Her skill set involves operations, administrative, legal, accounting, project management and proposals and has obtained a certification in project management from Google.
Rebekah holds a Master of Music from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and a Bachelor of Arts specializing in music performance from Albion College in Albion, Michigan.
Ruthie Bryant is a global health professional with 7+ years of experience across the advocacy, research, and technology spaces. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, effective governance, and project management. Passionate about women's health and rights, Ruthie previously served as the Organizational Development Manager at White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) where she led organizational strengthening efforts. Prior to WRA, Ruthie was the Associate Director of the White House Visitors Office under the Obama Administration, and a Program Associate for the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) housed at the United Nations Foundation (UNF).
Ruthie holds a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a graduate certificate in monitoring and evaluation from American University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University.
Sarah Hemingway Lynch is a partner to mission driven organizations providing overall planning, management, and execution of complex impact strategies. She has US and global policy and advocacy experience with networks in North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. She also leads the monitoring and evaluation work that is critical to assessing the reach and impact policy and advocacy teams can have in the world.
Sarah began her career as a journalist for news outlets in the U.S. and Europe, including Reuters Television and People Magazine. She subsequently worked on national political campaigns and was responsible for media strategy, policy and events. She joined the public affairs staff at the Risk and Insurance Management Society following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S and the subsequent Enron collapse where she was responsible for media relations, government affairs and member mobilization. She was working alongside experts to influence the creation of Ready.gov, while also learning firsthand the implications of U.S. global policy on other nations. Her feminist perspective came from influential activists involved with Americans for UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) where she served as National Outreach Coordinator and was responsible for building bases of support in key legislative districts throughout the country to advocate for women and girls everywhere. From there, she joined CARE where she spent over 15 years in the policy and advocacy unit. At CARE, she built the global advocacy program, and oversaw the strategy and implementation of cross-cutting initiatives to further CARE's advocacy agenda and provide insight on partnerships and initiatives that are locally led and globally connected. Sarah served as the first trip director at CARE, managing the Learning Tours program as well as, the Citizen Advocacy program and the CARE Action Network, the Women and Girls Lead Global program and elevated CARE's thought leadership on systems level change and gender equity.
Throughout her career, Sarah has always worked to listen and amplify important stories to inform decision makers and policy makers when it matters. She was granted a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University. She and her husband, Marty Lynch, left Washington D.C. for West Shokan, New York, a small hamlet in the Catskill Mountains, to raise their three children and run a community coffee shop and market called Marty's Mercantile.
Saranga Jain Blaser is a global gender and health expert with over 20 years of experience in operations research, program planning and strategy development. Her areas of focus include gender-based violence (GBV), adolescent girls, gender and faith, male engagement, and maternal and child health in Asia and Africa.
As a gender consultant for the last decade, Saranga's work includes managing a gender and faith initiative at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, developing and piloting a GBV training workshop and guide for faith leaders at Episcopal Relief & Development, and conducting technical and policy analysis on child marriage data for UNICEF Indonesia.
Prior to consulting, Saranga was the Gender and Global Health Program Officer at Episcopal Relief & Development, where she led the development and inclusion of a gender strategy as part of the organization's new, 5-year strategic plan, with gender-based violence as a key priority. She also managed the organization's portfolio of health programming globally and integrated gender into program and monitoring and evaluation plans. Previously, Saranga was a Gender and Public Health Specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), where among other efforts she conducted some of the earliest research on child marriage, including predictors, causal factors and program mapping.
Saranga has a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University and a BA from Pennsylvania State University.
Savannah has over eight years of international and cross-cultural experience in policy and advocacy, program management, communications, partnership building, and research. Her areas of expertise include gender equality and global health, specifically HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Savannah joined GHV as a Senior Consultant in February 2018 and prior to her current role, Savannah served as a Senior Associate on the policy and advocacy team at Women Deliver where she worked primarily on the Deliver forGood Campaign, which puts a gender lens on sustainable development and promotes 12 critical investments for girls and women.
Savannah also served as a 2014-2015 Global Health Corps Fellow working as the Research and Documentation Officer for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Mbarara, Uganda. While in Uganda, her role entailed managing the communications strategy for the country office and conducting narrative interviews and focus groups with health workers and patients to better understand and enhance programmatic outreach. Before moving to Uganda, Savannah worked in the Accreditation Department at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and received her Master's Degree in International Studies and Women's Studies from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She has worked on women's development programs in Haiti, Rwanda, and Senegal and also worked for two consecutive summers with Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA) in South Africa on a community-based research project that informed her thesis on gender and human security. Savannah is an avid supporter of human rights and global health equity.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Senior Advisor / Leader in Measurement and Evaluation of Behavioral Interventions
Sohail has designed, managed,evaluated, and provided technical oversight to COVID-19, maternal and childhealth (MCH), immunization, HIV/AIDS, and family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He has lived and worked on 5 continents, including long term experience leading major programs in Eastern/Southern Africa and South Asia.
Sohail has also designed and led complex global donor initiatives. At the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation(BMGF), from 2015 to 2022, he led the integration of social norms and behavioral science approaches with the foundation's grants and programs, influencing significant investments in Africa and Asia. He introduced several user-friendly models and approaches to multiple program teams at BMGF, and other major donors such as USAID, leading more than 200 field-based practitioners to adopt behavioral science and continuous program improvement approaches. Sohail mentored immunization practitioners to adopt an easy-to-use behavior change model in Nigeria, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, and Niger. He initiated the Social Norms Learning Collaborative in partnership with USAID and the Hewlett Foundation, which introduced social norms program implementation, measurement, and evaluation to 500 practitioners in Nigeria, Eastern Africa,and South Asia.