EV4GH around the globe

Mark (they/them) is a nurse by training (has a Master’s and Ph.D. in Nursing Science from the Philippines) with over a decade of clinical and public health experience. A holder of an MSc in International Health and a current Ph.D. student at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. Concurrently, they act as Supervising Science Research Specialist for the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, a research arm of the Philippines Department of Health. Their research interests lie at the intersection of health policy and promotion, systems thinking, communication, and knowledge translation with a particular focus on the development of global health interventions using human-centered design and implementation research for infectious and neglected tropical diseases. Their current dissertation work explores the role that families, communities, and frontline healthcare workers can play in shifting and transforming vaccine confidence in the Philippines.

Mazen is a medical doctor and pediatrician with clinical experience in Syria and United Arab Emirates and and has a PhD in public health with research experience in, among other countries, Sweden, Tanzania and Uganda. His thesis was about young migrants’ sexual and reproductive health in Sweden. He is involved in projects about men’s sexual and reproductive healthcare in Sweden, family planning in informal settlements in Uganda, children’s rights in Sweden, and social accountability and health system performance in Tanzania. His main research interests are health policies, migrants’ health , men’s health and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Rizka Ayu Setyani is a lecturer at Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia. Her research interests are HIV AIDS prevention, maternal & child health in complementary therapy, and digital health. She is an Emerging Voices for Global Health fellow (2022), Southeast Asian Woman cohort (2021), and mentor in the International AIDS Society (2021).

My work broadly concentrates on health systems-more specifically, access to healthcare and financial risk protection. My approach has been to measure the progress towards universal health coverage in India in the context of other nations. To answer these questions, I have used large scale secondary datasets along with field-based exploration. I am interested in health systems, elderly health, disability, health economics and healthcare financing. I have used primary studies to understand various strategies for achieving universal health coverage in low and middle-income countries like India.

I received my bachelor of medicine specialized in preventive medicine in 2012 from Fudan University, PRC. I received my Ph.D. in health policy and management in 2017 from University of California, Los Angeles, USA. I worked as a postdoctoral scholar in 2017-2019 at University of California, San Diego, USA. I am currently an assistant professor in health policy and management at Fudan University.

Lana is a lecturer and health systems and policy researcher whose work critically analyses the political economy underpinning local through to global health policy decisions. With a background in human rights, international relations and public health, Lana is particularly passionate about global health, power and issues of health equity. Lana has worked in various health management, public health & development capacities in the Western Pacific region. Through long-term engagement in Vanuatu, Lana’s current research focuses on health policymaking and systems strengthening efforts in the Pacific region.

Lela Sulaberidze serves as a researcher at Curatio International Foundation (CIF) – a Georgia based non-governmental organization with almost a 30-year history of health systems and policy research in the region. Following her master thesis dissertation in Public Health in 2014 she joined the CIF and since then she has been working on research projects to generate evidence for policy decision. With a great passion for the health policy and systems research Lela has worked on several research projects covering different fields such as health financing, disease surveillance, size estimation of key populations for HIV, mental health, primary healthcare system, transition and sustainability of donor financing, designing results-based financing for improved TB care, investigating barriers to access to HCV treatment in the era of HCV Elimination program in Georgia, etc. Since 2019 Ms. Sulaberidze is actively involved in producing evidence synthesis documents for evidence-informed policymaking and also participates in policy dialogues. Soon after the very early start of COVID-19 introduction in Georgia together with her colleagues she developed a policy paper focusing on the effective measures to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic. The document was prepared and shared with the government of Georgia to support in evidence-informed decision making. Lela is an active young professional and does not miss the possibilities to grab opportunities to grow and develop her professional skills and expertise and to present the results of her work to wider audience through participation in local policy discussions and international conferences.

Dr Mareme Diallo is a postdoc fellow on health system at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia (MRC-G) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medecine. With the West African Global Health Alliance (WAGHA), She is based in Senegal at the Institut de Recherche en Santé de Surveillance Epidémiologique et de formation (IRESSEF). In 2018, Dr Diallo defended a doctoral thesis of sociology of health on the determinants of unmet need on family planning in Senegal. Since then, she is a postdoc fellow at MRC-G where she mainly works health systems in West Africa through maternal and neonatal health and sometimes transnational health care uses using a qualitative approach. With Covid pandemic, she started working on the resilience of Human Resources on Health.