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.

Dr. Orin Levine leads the foundation’s Global Delivery Programs. He is also the Foundation’s focal point for engagement with the Gavi Alliance whose mission is saving children’s lives by increasing access to immunization in poor countries. Before joining the foundation’s Global Development Program in 2012, Dr. Levine was a Professor of International Health, and Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has also served as a Steering Committee Member of the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration and Co-Chair of its Global Access Working Group, as well as President, Committee on Global Health, American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Dr. Levine graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Gettysburg College and received a PhD in epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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.

Dr. Stefan Peterson is UNICEF’s Chief of Health and Associate Director, Programme Division, based in New York. He was a Professor of Global Health at Uppsala University and at the Global Health Division of Karolinska Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Makerere University in Uganda. As a health systems researcher and medical doctor, Dr. Peterson did extensive field work in Tanzania and Uganda, and worked with different ministries of health, and organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO). He implemented projects supported by the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA), the Gates Foundation, and the European Union. He was a co-founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres Sweden and the CCM Task Force Operations Research Group. Dr. Peterson is a medical doctor with degrees in Medicine, Public Health and a PHD in International Pediatrics. He is a national of Sweden.

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.

Bethel Woappi provides logistical and operational support as the Operations Associate for PHCPI. Prior to joining PHCPI, Bethel was a Research Coordinator at McMaster University, where she managed the study of a multilingual online global health course using artificial intelligence. Previously, Bethel was a Global Health Corps Fellow at DotHouse Health, where she managed quality improvement and staff wellness projects. Bethel received her bachelor’s degree in Health Studies and International Development Studies and a master’s in public health, with a focus on global health, from the University of Toronto.