WomenLift Health has selected the emerging leaders below to participate in the sixth 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
Alden Nouga-Ngog
Senior Partnerships Advisor, USAID Global Health Bureau/Office of Population and Reproductive Health
Alison Koler
Deputy Director, Orphans and Vulnerable Children and DREAMS, Pact
Amarynth Sichel
Senior Digital Health Advisor, USAID
Amy Finnegan
Deputy Director, Data Science, IntraHealth International
Anna Kalbarczyk
Assistant Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Anna Temu
Associate Director, Clinical Project Management, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM)
Anne Njoroge
Digital Health Informatician, International Training and Education Center for Health (ITECH), University of Washington
Beryne Odeny
Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Bhakti Hansoti
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Eileen Dunne
Senior Director, Scientific Affairs and Epidemiology, Pfizer
Elizabeth Kohlway
Director, Global Community Engagement & Applied Learning, Sabin Vaccine Institute
Farnaz Malik
Senior Technical Advisor, Vital Strategies
Frances Ilika
Director, Health Systems, Palladium Group Global
Janani Vijayaraghavan
Health Advisor, Plan International Canada
Jennifer Guertin
Chief of Growth, Zenysis
Jessica Backman-Levy
Associate Professor of Practice, Washington University in St Louis
Jessica Celentano
Management Lead, UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences
Joanna Skinner
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Lead, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Katherine Bliss
Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Lesley Park
Senior Research Scientist; Executive Director, Stanford University School of Medicine
Lisa Saldanha
Senior Nutrition Specialist, World Bank Group
Lisa Smith
Global Program Leader, Market Dynamics, PATH
Mariam Zameer
Director, Health Systems; Immunization Lead, VillageReach
Megan McHenry
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine
Nikita Boston-Fisher
Associate Director, Laidley Centre for Business Ethics & Equity, McGill University
Sameera Hussain
Director, Public Health Agency of Canada
Shelby Cash
Health Scientist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Shibani Kulkarni
Health Scientist; Lead Demand for Immunization Team, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Stephanie Watson-Grant
Project Director, JSI
Ucheoma Nwaozuru
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Cohort B
Abbey Kocan
Deputy Director, Bay Area Global Health Alliance
Catalina González Marqués
Physician _ Associate Director of Emergency Health Systems, Brigham and Women's Hospital_ Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Chibuzor Onyenuobi
Senior Program Specialist, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Desiree LaBeaud
Professor, Associate Dean, Stanford
Dominique LaRochelle
Director, Gender Equality Strategy, Save the Children Canada
Elizabeth Doggett
Senior Technical Advisor, Gender, Jhpiego
Francelle Kwankam Toedtli
Technical Specialist, sexual and reproductive health and rights and maternal health, UNFPA
Juliana da Silva
Team Lead, Viral Suppression Team, CDC - Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis
Katy Ashe
Design Director, YLabs
Kelly Young
Associate Director Program, Planning & Evaluation, UCSF
Kelly Zongo
Senior Director, Programs, The END Fund
Kerry Thomson
Research Scientist, University of Washington, Department of Global Health, I-TECH
Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan
Assistant Professional Researcher, University of California San Francisco
Mabel Carabali
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Maria Carrasco
Sr. Implementation Sciences Research Technical Advisor, USAID
Mary Kante
Founder and Principal, Eau Claire Consulting (ECC)
Megha Kumar
Senior Strategy Manager, Medtronic
Mehr Manzoor
Founder & CEO, BeyondParity
Nikki Tyler
Director of Partnerships, U.S. Department of State, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Petra Heitkamp
Community Manager, TBPPM Learning Network
Pooja Yerramilli
Health Specialist, World Bank
Robin Mohr
Senior Research Manager, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Robyn Iqbal
Global Health Strategy, GSK (previous)
Sara Baumann
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Shannon Prudhomme
Senior Technical Advisor, Partnerships - MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience Project, Corus International
Sun Cotter
Deputy Director, University of California Global Health Institute
Uche Ralph-Opara
Chief Health Officer, Project HOPE
Yashodhara Rana
Associate Director, Eleanor Crook Foundation
Yemelaknesh Wolde
Health Financing Advisor, Open Development
Zinat Begum
Senior Humanitarian Advisor, Jhpeigo
