A Paediatric Oncology fellow at the Korle Bu Teaching hospital, Ella has a keen interest in oncogenetics and has extensive experience working in resource limited settings. Ella established an Oncology shared care unit at the Cape Coast Teaching hospital which helps to improve patients’ access to care. Ella is a strong advocate for children and believes cancer care and research in children must be diverse.

Dr. Blake Angell is a Senior Research Fellow in the Health Systems Science program at the George Institute for Global Health, a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health UNSW Sydney Australia, and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow. He is a health economist conducting research on the equity, efficiency, and incentive impacts of health policy in health systems around the world.

Dr. Mamadou Selly Ly is Director of Legal Affairs and Partnerships, National Agency for Universal Health Coverage, Senegal. Among many publications, Mamadou is lead author of the recent paper, ‘Universal health insurance in Africa: a narrative review of the literature on institutional models’.

Dr. Kenneth Yakubu is a family physician from Nigeria and PhD candidate in the Health Systems Science Unit at The George Institute. Yakubu’s research focuses on right’s-based perspectives for interpreting and addressing global health worker shortages. He is also co-lead of the Institute’s Africa Initiative to expand research engagement in the continent.

Dr. Olive Kobusingye is an accident & emergency surgeon, injury epidemiologist, and published author. She is Director of the Trauma, Injuries and Disability programme at the Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Board Chair of The Road Traffic Injuries Research Network, and co-founder of The Great Outdoors, Uganda.

Dr Iriarte chairs the Advisory Committee of the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative (SMI), managed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carlos Slim Foundation, and the Government of Canada. She has managed, supervised, and led primary health care programs supporting country governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Dr Joshi is a Scientia Fellow and National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow, is public health physician who works on developing low-cost healthcare models for chronic disease management in resource-limited settings. Her research interests include strengthening health systems using task-sharing between physician and non-physician health workers to deliver quality health care in resource-poor settings.   

Dr Hirschhorn works as a Professor of Medical Social Science and Psychiatry and Behavioural Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Senior Director for Implementation and Improvement Science at Last Mile Health. Trained in medicine and HIV, she is an expert in implementation research and improvement science, actively applying these methods to improve the quality and equity of care in resource-limited settings including maternal and child health, HIV, primary care, and non-communicable diseases 

Dr Devarsetty is the Program Director for Primary Healthcare Research at the George Institute for Global Health. He is a public health specialist with thorough knowledge of epidemiological study designs and having a keen interest in systems-based innovations to address inequities related to chronic diseases. He had developed and implemented several large population-based on m-health primary health care programs in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Thailand.    

Dr Mash chairs the Steering Committee, is a Professor of Family Medicine and Primary Care at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and co-ordinator of the PRIMAFAMED network in sub-Saharan Africa. He helped to establish the discipline of family medicine in South Africa and subsequently in many other countries across sub-Saharan Africa. He is committed to the development of community-orientated primary care, primary health care and district health services in the region.