Our team

Tim has been at the forefront of advancing global health equity and strengthening health systems delivery for more than 20 years. From 2010 to 2013, Tim was Dean of the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Senior Advisor to the BRAC Health Program. From 2003 to 2010, he was Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization (WHO). At WHO, he led the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and oversaw the production of the annual World Health Report. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Health Equity Theme at the Rockefeller Foundation. Earlier in his career he was an attending physician of internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and was Assistant Professor in International Health Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a board member of a number of international health alliances. He has been a co-founder of many partnerships, including the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), as well as efforts to increase access to HIV treatment for mothers and innovative approaches to training community-based midwives in Bangladesh. Tim received his medical degree from McMaster University in Canada and was a research and internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He earned a D.Phil. in agricultural economics from University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Atul is a surgeon, writer, and public health leader. He is CEO of the non-profit-seeking health care venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to deliver better outcomes, satisfaction, and cost efficiency in care. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is the founding executive director and chairman of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. Atul has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and has written four New York Times bestsellers: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science. Atul holds degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University, and completed his medical degree at Harvard University.

As the Director of Integrated Delivery, Dana works with both the Global Development and Global Health programs to speed up the launch, improve the delivery, enhance integration, and scale up the use of life saving and life changing products, services, technologies, and service delivery innovations. Dana has broad experience in healthcare delivery and has designed, launched and managed successful health programs on five continents. Most recently, he was Chief Executive of Marie Stopes International, leading a global network of family health, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention programs operating in 40 countries. Prior to that role, he was Senior Vice President of Population Services International (PSI). Dana has spent nearly 10 years living and working in Francophone West Africa and Pakistan. Dana received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and his MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics.

Edward leads WHO’s efforts to strengthen the safety, quality, integration and people-centeredness of health services globally and is the lead for WHO’s work on strengthening health systems and security. Before joining WHO, he served as Director of the National Healthcare Reports for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Edward also directed the 28-country Health Care Quality Improvement (HCQI) Project of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Prior to this, Edward served as a Senior Researcher and Quality Assurance Advisor for the USAID-sponsored Quality Assurance Project (QAP) and Partnerships for Health Reform Project Plus (PHRPlus). Edward completed his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

Gina is one of the original co-founders of Results for Development, a nonprofit that works with change agents across the globe to create self-sustaining systems that support healthy, educated people. Gina helped design and launch the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a network of policymakers in low- and middle-income countries working together to develop practical solutions to the challenges of achieving universal health coverage, and is supporting R4D's current efforts to develop a similar network for education system leaders. She also supported the development of the Center for Health Market Innovations, which has identified and is promoting learning among more than 1,500 innovative health efforts in 110 countries. Prior to her work in global development, Gina designed and implemented the reform of a free public health coverage program serving low-income Washington, D.C. residents. Gina holds a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University and bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University.

Beth has focused her career on bolstering equitable, sustainable global development, through a combination of public, private sector, and not-for-profit service. Before joining PHCPI, she served in the U.S. government as the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Vice President for Policy and Evaluation, leading the agency’s country partner selection, economic analysis, and monitoring and evaluation, and began her career on Capitol Hill, with a focus on global health and development policy and funding as Legislative Director to a leader of the House Appropriations Committee. As a former Managing Director at the Glover Park Group, an award-winning strategic communications firm, she built an industry-leading portfolio of clients with a specific interest in global development policy, advocacy, and communications. Beth received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, and studied at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

As a practicing family doctor for the urban underserved, with fellowship training in health professional education and almost two decades of experience in postgraduate training for Family Medicine, Jeff has developed a deep understanding of frontline primary health care and the human resource capacity-building necessary to support its success. As Executive Director of the Boston University Global Health Collaborative, Jeff has led successful long-term Family Medicine development programs over the last decade to promote primary health care system strengthening throughout southeast Asia and in Lesotho in southern Africa, working towards national-level scale up of horizontally and vertically-integrated primary care service delivery models. Jeff’s experience with challenges in measuring and evaluating this success drives his pursuit of more and better measurement with PHCPI. Jeff received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, his MD at Saint Louis University, and his masters of education at Boston University.

Maisoon is the Program Associate of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI). In her role, she supports the development and management of program materials, coordinates programmatic activities across the partnership, and provides project management and grants management support. Prior to joining PHCPI, Maisoon was an Associate at the United Nations Foundation supporting the organization's Board of Directors. Maisoon graduated with a BS in Biochemistry from Arizona State University and an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.