WomenLift Health has selected the emerging leaders below to participate in the fifth North America Cohort of the Leadership Journey, a fully-funded leadership initiative designed to support women through the challenges and opportunities of advancing to senior leadership positions in global health.
Cohort A
Adele Waugaman
Senior Digital Health Advisor, USAID
Aleefia Somji
Principal Technical Advisor, Jhpiego
Alison El Ayadi
Associate Professor, University of California San Francisco
Anna Rapp
Formerly Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Anja Minnick
Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Belen Moran Bradley
Sr. Health Communication Specialist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chelsea Harris
Director, Global Access Program, EMEA & LATAM, Roche Diagnostics
Chelsea Polis
Senior Scientist, Epidemiology, Population Council
Debra Prosnitz
Gender Equity Advisor, CDC Foundation
Deliana Kostova
Senior Economist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Elizabeth Mziray
Senior Operations Officer, The World Bank
Emma Mitchell
Associate Professor and Director of Global Initiatives, University of Virginia
Intissar Sarker
Private Sector Service Delivery Technical Advisor, USAID
Jennifer Vergeon
Associate Director-Clinical Research Manager, Merck
Jessica Rodrigues
Senior Advisor, USAID
Katherine Wolf
Senior Principal Technical Advisor, Jhpiego
Kavitha Nallathambi
Senior Advisor, Policy and Advocacy, Project HOPE
Manuela Villar Uribe
Senior Health Specialist, World Bank
Margaret Mutumba
Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Statistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
Martina Gonzalez Gomez
Global Neurosurgery Program Manager II, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Melissa Ojemeni
Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Partners In Health
Mohini Bhavsar
Director of Corporate Strategy, Grand Challenges Canada
Molly Baker
Associate Director, Finance & Operations, Infectious Disease, Research and Labs Teams, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Muriel Mac-Seing
Assistant Professor of Global Health, School of Public Health, Université de Montréal
Nitika Pant Pai
Professor, McGill University
Ochiawunma E Akwiwu Ibe
Freelance Public Health Physician
Patience Afulani
Associate Professor, University of California San Francisco
Renee Heffron
Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stephanie Garbern
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Brown University
Temitope Akintunde
Deputy Director, Technical Assistance Management and Delivery, Nutrition International
Cohort B
Amita Mehrotra
Senior Technical Advisor, Capacity Strengthening, FHI 360
Aparna Kamath
Senior Portfolio Manager, Grand Challenges Canada
Christina Wakefield
Senior Advisor, Social and Behavior Change, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
Ciara Sugerman
Team Lead, Immunization Delivery Science Team, Immunization Systems Branch, Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Dianna Ng
Assistant Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Emilia Carrera
Director, The Rockefeller Foundation
Emily Stong
PEPFAR Project Officer Team Lead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Fatima Karaki
Physician, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health Initiative (RAHI)
Heather Marlow
Senior Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
Joan Muasa
Senior Director, Institutional Relationships and Program Review, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Kate Onyejekwe
Director, International Division, Washington D.C, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
Kristin Srour
Associate Director, Indiana University Center for Global Health Equity/AMPATH
Kyla Hayford
Global Medical Lead, Pneumococcal Vaccines, Pfizer Vaccines
Lauren Wall
Deputy Director, Capacity Strengthening, PATH
Leontine Alkema
Professor of Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Louise Kathini Makau-Barasa
Senior Director, Programs, The END Fund
Moytrayee Guha
Program Director, Center for Health System Sustainability / Global Health Consultant, Brown University School of Public Health / World Bank
Nicole Brown
Director, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA
Niki Msipa-Ndebele
Program Director, USAID Strategic Partnerships for Advancing Research and Knowledge (SPARK), International Institute for Education
Nilima Mehta
Associate Director, Health Initiatives U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Omotayo Bolu
Polio Eradication Branch Chief, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Pamela Bayas
Chief Marketing Officer Vaccines and Pharma Latin America, Merck
Prarthna Desai
Director, Health & Life Sciences, Gates Ventures
Purba Chatterjee
Associate Director for Global Health Equity, University of California San Francisco, Dept. of OB/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center
Rachel Couper
Senior Principal Specialist for Global Health, DAI
Radhika Bhavsar
Senior Technical Specialist, Innovation, Global Communities; Global Health Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
Sarah L. Bosha
Director, Capacity Building & Health Law Programs, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Tracy Rabin
Associate Professor of Medicine & Director, Office of Global Health, Yale School of Medicine
Veena Sriram
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Waimar Tun
Senior Associate, Population Council
