Team & Community
A network of local and international experts
Our community of experts includes prominent academic researchers, funders, global health experts, and in-country program implementation leaders dedicated to harnessing rigorous data and evidence to better understand and replicate large-scale health successes around the world.
This network of local and international experts not only supports and evaluates our research, they also participate in ongoing discussions within the global health community by responding to questions submitted through our and sharing insights via Perspectives posts. Informed by their first-hand experience leading or implementing successful national programs or engaging in cross-country research projects, our community of experts are motivated by a deep commitment to increasing collaboration within the global health sector as a pathway to accelerating progress in global health.
If you are interested in joining our community, please get in touch with us .
Team
Nadia Askeer
Research and Content
EGH Alumni
Andrea VieiraCommunications and Platform | Andrew CahillNutrition | Beatrice WamutiResearch and Content | Caitlyn MasonCommunications and Platform |
Chelsea RobertsOperations | Daniel BeaulieuCommunications and Platform | Eliud AkamaPrimary Health Care | Eliza LarameeWomen's Health |
Elizabeth DeneenPrimary Health Care | Gabriela PazEGH Operations | Goutham KandruNutrition | Jen LangstonLead, Program Management |
Nathaniel GertheNutrition | Neil GuptaManager | Oliver RothschildLead, Research and Content | Rachel StuhldreherPrimary Health Care |
Rowan HusseinPartnerships and Impact | Saloni SinghviPartnerships and Impact | Sam MargolisResearch and Content | Sarah KesterPartnerships and Impact |
Yash SathePartnerships and Impact |
Community of Experts
Aaron Wallace | Epidemiologist at Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Vaccine Delivery | Technical advisor |
Agnes Binagwaho | Vice Chancellor and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Global Health Equity | Under-5 Mortality | Primary research partner |
Akramul Islam | Director, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control & Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), BRAC | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Alula M. Teklu | MD, MPH, Managing Partner, MERQ Consultancy PLC | Under-5 Mortality | In-country research partner |
Amare Deribew | Country Director at Nutrition International, Ethiopia | Stunting | Topic expert |
Ambarka Youssuofane | Nutritionist at International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC | Stunting | Topic expert |
Aminata Ndiaye Coly | UNICEF, Senegal | Stunting | Topic expert |
Anindya Bose | Team Lead, Immunization Preventable Diseases Programme, WHO-Nepal | Vaccine Delivery | Technical advisor |
Anita Zaidi | Director, Vaccine Development, Surveillance, and Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases programs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Under-5 Mortality | Technical advisor |
Anuradha Gupta | Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance | Vaccine Delivery | Technical advisor |
Ariela Luna | Minster for Development and Social Inclusion, Peru | Stunting | Topic expert |
Armen Sedrakyan | Economist at FAO | Stunting | Topic expert |
Asel Sargaldakova | Health Specialist at The World Bank | Stunting | Topic expert |
Belaynesh Yifru | Senior health and nutrition advisor, UNICEF | Stunting | Topic expert |
Ben Grant | Program Director, Last Mile Health, Liberia | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Bernice Dahn | Vice President / Academic Dean for College of Health Sciences, University of Liberia (Former Minister of Health for the Republic of Liberia) | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Bilal Shikur | Head of the Department, School of public health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia | Stunting | Primary research partner |
Birara Melese | Nutrition case team leader, Nutritionist | Stunting | Topic expert |
Brittney Varpilah | Deputy Country Director, Last Mile Health, Liberia | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Camila Giugliani | Professor, Social Medicine Department, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Carlile Lavor | Director, Fiocruz Ceará | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Cesar Victora | Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas | Stunting | Technical advisor |
Claunara Mendonça | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Delanyo Dovlo | Former Director of Health Systems and Services, WHO AFRO | Community Health Workers | Technical advisor |
Dinara Abzhamilova | Deputy Country Director, WFP Kyrgyz Republic | Stunting | Topic expert |
Elisa Vidal | Regional Advisor - Latin America at Medicines for Malaria Venture | Stunting | Primary research partner |
Ellen Piwoz | Former Senior Program Officer, Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Stunting | Technical advisor |
Elmira Kabylova | The National Center for Maternal and Child Health of Kyrgyzstan, MoH KR | Stunting | Topic expert |
Emily Keats | Senior Research Associate, Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children | Stunting | Primary research partner |
Fauzia Akhter Huda | Project Coordinator, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Bangladesh | Under-5 Mortality | In-country research partner |
Felix Sayingoza | Maternal, Child, and Community Health Division Manager, Rwanda Biomedical Center | Under-5 Mortality | In-country research partner |
Ferew Lemma | Public Health specialist and Nutritionist at Ministry of Health Ethiopia | Stunting | Topic expert |
Frehiwot Nigatu Yimer | Acting Executive Director, International Institute for Primary Health Care - Ethiopia (IIfPHC-E) | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Getnet Mitke | Senior Director, International Institute for Primary Health Care - Ethiopia (IIfPHC-E) | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Gulmira Aitmurzaeva | Director, Republican Center for Health Promotion | Stunting | Topic expert |
Gulmira Kojobergenova | Chair of board, Civil Alliance | Stunting | Topic expert |
Halida Hanum Akhter | Senior Associate in the Department of International Health, Division of Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Heidi Larson | Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP); Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, LSHTM | Vaccine Delivery | Technical advisor |
Henry Perry | Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins University | Community Health Workers | Technical advisor |
Hibret Alemu Tilahun | Project Director, Ethiopia Data Use Partnership, International, JSI | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Ibrahima Diouf | Data scientist, National Agency of Statistics and Demography (ANSD), Senegal | Stunting | Primary research partner |
James A. Macinko | Professor, Departments of Health Policy and Management and Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Jessica Nino de Guzman | Consultant at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Government of Peru/ JUNTOS (MIDIS) | Stunting | Topic expert |
Joanne Katz | Professor Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Stunting | Technical advisor |
Jon Mosser | Team Lead, Vaccine Coverage and VPDs, IHME; Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington | Vaccine Delivery | Topic expert |
Joy Lawn | Director MARCH Centre (Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Under-5 Mortality | Technical Advisor |
Kahsu Bekuretsion | Susan Thompson Buffet Foundation (Former FMOH) | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Kaosar Afsana | Professor, James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Kate Somers | Deputy Director, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Under-5 Mortality | Topic Expert |
Khaleda Islam | Director, Primary Health Care (Retired) at Directorate General of Health Services | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Krishna Jafa | CEO, Precision Global Health | Community Health Workers | Technical advisor |
Kyle Muther | Director of Advisory Engagements, Last Mile Health | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Lisa Hirschhorn | Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University | Under-5 Mortality | Primary research partner |
Luidina Hailu | Communication officer / Advocacy and Partnership lead, International Institute for Primary Health Care - Ethiopia (IIfPHC-E) | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Luis Cordero | Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS), Government of Peru | Stunting | Topic expert |
Luis Huicho | Director, Center for Research in Maternal and Child Health; Director of Research, Research Center for Integral and Sustainable Development, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia | Stunting | Primary research partner / Technical advisor |
Luwei Pearson | Principal Adviser, Health Programme Division, UNICEF | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Mahesh Maskey | Executive Chief, Nepal Public Health Foundation | Stunting | In-country research partner |
Mallika Raghavan | Director of Country Engagement, Last Mile Health | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Manav Bhattarai | Health Specialist at The World Bank | Stunting | Topic expert |
Maria Helena Mendonça | National School of Public Health (Rio de Janeiro) | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Marion Subah | Liberia Country Director, Last Mile Health, Liberia | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Marjolein Dieleman | Senior Advisor, Human Resources for Heath (HRH) and Health Systems research; Associate Professor, Global Health and Health Systems VU University Amsterdam | Community Health Workers | Technical advisor |
Mary Taylor | Independent (Former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Matthew Harris | Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Imperial College London | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Melody Kelemu | Training Officer, International Institute for Primary Health Care - Ethiopia (IIfPHC-E) | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Mengesha Admassu | Emeritus Professor of University of Gondar; Founding Executive Director of IIfPHC-E; Senior Advisor, International insitute for Primary Health Care - Ethiopia (IIfPHC-E) | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Meseret Zelalem | Director for Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition at Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia | Under-5 Mortality | Topic expert |
Milo Stanojevich | International Development Consultant | Stunting | Topic expert |
Mohamadou Sall | Director of the Institute for Training and Research in Population, Development and Health Reproduction (IPDSR) | Stunting | In-country research partner |
Mohammad Ariful Alam | Programme Head, Health, Nutrition and Population Programme, BRAC | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Momar Thiam | Head of Monitoring and Evaluation at Cellule de Lutte contre la Malnutrition, Government of Senegal | Stunting | Topic expert |
Morseda Chowdhury | Associate Director at Health, Nutrition and Population Programme, BRAC | Community Health Workers | In-country research partner |
Mushtaque Chowdhury | Professor of Population & Family Health, Columbia University and Formerly Vice Chair, BRAC | Community Health Workers | Technical advisor |
Nadia Akseer | Johns Hopkins University, USA | Stunting | Primary research partner |
Nan Chen | Managing Director of Health Systems, Last Mile Health | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Naresh Pratap KC | Retired Director, Family Health Division Ministry of Health and Population Kathmandu, Nepal | Stunting | Topic expert |
Ndèye Khady Touré | Micronutrient Advisor at Cellule de Lutte contre la Malnutrition | Stunting | Topic expert |
Nicholas Leydon | Senior Program Officer, Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Patricia J. Garcia | Former Minister of Health of Peru; Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima-Peru | Under-5 Mortality | In-country research partner |
Peter Berman | Professor and Director, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia; Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Pooja Pandey Rana | Deputy Chief of Party, Helen Keller International's Integrated Nutrition Program (Suaahara II) | Under-5 Mortality | Topic expert |
Pradiumna Dahal | Nutrition Specialist at UNICEF | Stunting | Topic expert |
Purnima Menon | Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute | Stunting | Technical advisor |
Raj Kumar Subedi | Former Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Nepal Public Health Foundation | Stunting | In-country research partner |
Raj Panjabi | CEO, Last Mile Health | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Ram Krishna Chandyo | Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen | Under-5 Mortality | Topic expert |
Ramesh Adhikari | Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital | Under-5 Mortality | In-country research partner |
Rasa Izadnegahdar | Director, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Discovery & Tools, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Stunting | Technical advisor |
Renato Tasca | Coordinator, Health Systems and Services Unit, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Robert Black | Director, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University | Stunting | Technical advisor |
Roman Mogilevskii | Associate Director, Institute of Public Policy & Administration, University of Central Asia | Stunting | Primary research partner |
S. Olasford Wiah | Director, Community Health Division, MOH | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Sameer Dixit | Co-Founder Vice Chairperson & Director of Research, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal (CMDN) | Vaccine Delivery | In-country research partner |
Savior Flomo Mendin | County Manager, Last Mile Health, Liberia | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Seifu Hagos Gebreyesus | Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia | Stunting | Primary research partner |
Shams El Arifeen | Senior Director, Maternal & Child Health Maternal Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Simon Hay | Director, Local Burden of Disease group, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Stunting | Technical advisor |
Solomon Eshetu | Food Science Research team, EPHI | Stunting | Topic expert |
Steve Lim | Professor of Health Metrics Sciences and Senior Director of Science and Engineering, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | Under-5 Mortality | Technical advisor |
Sue Horton | Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo | Stunting | Technical advisor |
T. Ruston Yarnko | Director, National Community Health Systems, Last Mile Health, Liberia | Community Health Workers | Primary research partner |
Tadele Deres | Nutritionist, Ministry of health Ethiopia | Stunting | Topic expert |
Temesgen Ayehu | Director, Health Extension Program and Primary Health Care, MOH | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Tewabech Bishaw | Founding Member, Ethiopian Public Health Association | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Thomas Hone | Faculty of Medicine, Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Tirtha Rana | Founding Member, Nepal Public Health Foundation | Stunting | Topic expert |
Uma Koirala | Nutrition Activist | Stunting | Topic expert |
Zalina Enikeeva | University of Central Asia, KR | Stunting | Primary research partner |
Zufan Abera | Evans School, University of Washington (Former FMOH) | Community Health Workers | Topic expert |
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta | Co-director of the Center for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto | Stunting | Primary research partner |