Our team

Muhammad Ali Pate is the Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank and the Director of Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), based in Washington DC. Dr. Pate, a U.S. and Nigerian national, was until recently the Chief Executive Officer of Big Win Philanthropy, based in the UK, and prior to that held several senior positions, including that of Minister of State for Health in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was previously in the World Bank Group where he joined as a Young Professional in 2000 and worked on health issues in several regions including Africa and the East Asia and Pacific.\ Dr. Pate is an MD trained in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, with an MBA from Duke University. Prior to this he studied at the University College London. He also has a Masters in Health System Management from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.

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 Health Systems, Tracey McNeill leads the team which builds on the foundation’s and field’s deep experience in health systems strengthening, system design, and service delivery innovation and aims to dramatically improve the efficiency, quality, and equity of primary health care. Previously, Tracey was vice president of Global Clinical Governance and Quality and chief mobilization officer at Babylon Healthcare and CEO of its digital health subsidiary in Rwanda, Babyl Rwanda. At Babylon Healthcare, Tracey worked with global regulators and policymakers to ensure delivery of high-quality primary health care services through virtual consultations across the UK and internationally. At Babyl Rwanda, she partnered with the government of Rwanda and stakeholders to roll out the digital health service as a part of the government’s universal health coverage scheme. Tracey also served as the senior vice president and commercial director at Marie Stopes International, where she collaborated with a diverse set of country leadership teams to expand the organization’s international programs in hard-to-reach areas. Tracey holds a post-graduate qualification in Occupational Health from The RCN London and a certification as a registered nurse from The Royal Free Hospital.

Dr. Suraya Dalil is the Director of the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care – a new programme established last year. She was the Minister of Public Health in Afghanistan from March 2012 through 2014 and Acting Minister of Public Health from January 2010 to February 2012. Dr. Dalil was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the UN and international organizations based in Geneva and Ambassador to Switzerland from October 2015 to March 2019. Her profile encompasses humanitarian leadership, health expertise and diplomacy. She holds a medical degree from Afghanistan and a Master’s degree in public health from Harvard University, where she is a visiting university fellow.

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.

Dr. Aboubacar Kampo is the Director of Health at UNICEF Headquarters. In this role, he provides strategic leadership, management support and overall direction to UNICEF’s global health programme. With over 20 years of experiences in development aid and humanitarian assistance, Dr. Kampo has worked as a physician/surgeon in hospitals and clinics in rural and urban areas in Africa and Asia and has over 14 years’ experience in senior management position as Country Director, Senior Global Health Advisor, Chief of Health and Nutrition with International NGOs and United Nations’ Agencies. Dr. Kampo is a Medical Doctor and Public Health Specialist, passionate about using innovations to address real life community challenges and bridge the gap between communities and stakeholders.

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.

Colleen Keating provides operational support for the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative. With a background in research and evaluation, her goal is to support strong measurement that informs strategic health policies and partnerships. Prior to joining PHCPI, Colleen worked as a Research Associate on a national health and aging study, where she coordinated the development of survey instruments and field staff training. As Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist in Madagascar, she evaluated a sexual health education curriculum and led qualitative and quantitative participatory research. Colleen holds a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University and an M.Sc. in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Emily is passionate about strong health systems, social justice and the power of advocacy to drive change. As part of the secretariat, she leads PHCPI’s efforts to build partnerships across health and development, manage the Allies Improving PHC network, and make the case for strategic investments in primary health care. Previously, she was a Director at Global Health Strategies, where she provided advocacy and communications support to leading actors in global health, with a focus on universal health coverage and health systems reform. As part of this work, she helped to launch Universal Health Coverage Day in 2014—now officially recognized by the United Nations—and supported UHC2030 to grow the annual campaign until 2020. She enjoys building coalitions, bridging the technical and the political, and bringing creative ideas to life; and has worked on a range of issues including gender equity, sexual and reproductive health and rights, neglected tropical diseases, quality medicines, and more. Emily graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in social studies and minor in global health and health policy.