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Mubita Lifwatila has more than 20 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing health and education projects in Southern, East, and West Africa. He has provided technical assistance to national malaria programs to institutionalize improved surveillance systems, data analytics using DHIS2, health information systems, epidemic detection, and rapid response capacities. He also has helped strengthen government systems for education service delivery and implementing strategies for mobilizing community support for education initiatives.

Dr. Mariam Reda, MD, is a public health physician with over 10 years of experience in clinical medicine and public health. She has served as a clinician, technical expert, strategic thinker, and innovative health programs designer and implementer. Reda has provided technical and management support for a wide range of health programs. She has demonstrated her ability to integrate strategies, turn challenges into learning opportunities, respond to evolving field demands, and continuously monitor and correct course as needed. Her technical expertise in health includes health systems strengthening, global health security, and management of emerging and re-emerging diseases. She also has experience with local systems capacity strengthening, development of academic curricula for nurses and midwives’ training, and strengthening countries’ bio-surveillance systems. She has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of States, the U.S. National Security Council, and international partners.

Adedayo Oduola is a public health entomologist with more than two decades of experience in Nigeria on malaria vector control programs in development institutions, research institutes, and academia. He has worked on malaria projects of national significance funded by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Bank, the European Union, and the private sector. As a senior lecturer at the University of Ilorin, his passion for ensuring a well-trained vector control workforce led to a WHO capacity strengthening grant that enabled him to train and mentor 23 entomologists from across the country.

Ibrahima Baber is an entomologist with 23 years of experience working in malaria vector control for development organizations and academic research institutions and as a consultant for private sector and mining companies. He performed surveillance on malaria vector bionomics in Sadiola and Yatela gold mine fields in the Kayes Region in Mali to assess the impact of mining activities on the mosquito population.

Barbara Goodson is a nationally recognized expert in research and policy on families and young children. She has more than 40 years of experience designing and conducting large, multi-site implementation and impact studies examining interventions for low-income and language minority children and families. Goodson is an expert on research methodology and measuring ECE environmental quality and fidelity of implementation of educational interventions. She specializes in the evaluation of pre-grade 12 interventions and early learning programs, designing logic models and conducting program improvement research to ensure successful implementations.

Raquel Gonzalez, Ph.D., has over 20 years of experience conducting research and evaluations focused on early childhood development, K-12 school systems, and institutes of higher education. Her work includes developing and conducting evaluations aimed at supporting the whole child, with a focus on children from birth to five and their families. She also has led large-scale impact evaluations to assess the efficacy of programs. She brings expertise working with a variety of local and state agencies in California, as well as with foundations and non-profits. Dr. Gonzalez uses a holistic and collaborative approach to her work, including engaging with key stakeholders throughout the process and being sensitive during data collection to ensure methods are not extractive. 

Ellen Bomasang is a global development professional who has focused on clean energy and infrastructure across emerging economies in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East for close to 30 years. Her project work spans innovative finance, energy sector planning, policy and regulatory reform, private sector engagement, rural electrification, energy access, and social and local development.

Dr. Gulnora Razykova is a medical doctor, health system strategist, and healthcare executive with more than 20 years’ experience leading and managing health and education projects. She is an expert in several health fields, having led multi-million-dollar projects for several donor agencies, including the United Nations Drug Control Programme and Department for International Development. Razykova has a clinical background and research experience in the social sector, clinical pharmacology, and healthcare environment in Tajikistan. She has extensive experience in private and government health system development and strengthening. She is adept in complex program management and especially skilled in financial planning, budgeting and monitoring. In addition, Razykova has extensive experience in human resources and results-based management.

Maureen Ogada-Ndekana has more than 14 years of experience bolstering health systems in the east African region. She has expertise in public-private engagement, health markets development, social enterprise marketing, health project management, and policy advocacy for health. She has played leading roles in several U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects, including Local Health Systems Sustainability (LHSS) and the global flagship private sector initiative, Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus, in Tanzania. She helped accelerate progress toward Tanzania’s health goals by unlocking the potential of the private sector markets for sexual and reproductive health and HIV commodities.