Our staff

We owe our strength to the quality of our technical specialists. For any assignment we seek to provide individuals who are leaders in their respective professional disciplines.

Chris Allison is a demographer with expertise covering health policy and systems, sexual and reproductive health, project management, maternal health, public-private partnerships, monitoring and evaluation, NGOs, institutional development, SWAps, poverty reduction. He has extensive and recent experience of working in Pakistan and Nigeria.

Adrienne Chattoe-Brown leads on Service Delivery and Health Services. She has experience in health sector reform focusing on policy analysis, sector wide approaches, multisectoral working, and integration of vertical programmes. Adrienne has conducted research and analysis into health SWAp policy development and effectiveness as well as reviewing and evaluating government-donor relations.

Terri Collins specialises in institutional/organisational development, capacity building and planning with over 12 years experience in Africa. Terri has wide experience of organisational assessments, performance monitoring, planning, feasibility studies and design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems. She recently completed five years of technical and management support for the £10m DFID-funded Strengthening the AIDS Response Zambia (STARZ) programme.

Rose-marie de Loor is Development Director for the International Health and Education Division with experience in public health, health systems development and decentralisation focusing on establishing sustainable district health systems. Rose-marie is experienced in long-term programme management as well as short term consultancies in a variety of settings, including working in conflict and complex emergencies focusing on rehabilitation and disaster preparedness.

Emma Denton is a health economist with particular expertise in evaluating global programmes and initiatives. She has experience of undertaking budget analyses and expenditure reviews, evaluating alternative financing options and cost recovery techniques; leading national health accounts exercises and evaluating global programmes and initiatives, including GAVI and Stop TB.

Clare Dickinson is HLSP Lead Specialist for HIV and AIDS, focusing particularly on global aid architecture and political dimensions of HIV responses. Clare has substantial experience of international health programme and project management in Africa, South and South East Asia and has authored papers on the role of institutions, interests and ideas in national HIV responses and strengthening linkages between SRH and HIV programmes.

Sarah Dobson is Maternal and Neonatal Health Specialist. She has over 15 years management experience in rehabilitating health systems (post crisis) for maternal and neonatal health in developing and transforming economies. Sarah has specific expertise in maternal and newborn health care delivery at primary and secondary level including management and organisation of health systems and planning of training and quality control mechanisms.

Martine Donoghue is Lead Specialist on Monitoring and Evaluation, with particular expertise in health policy and global partnerships. Martine has undertaken design of the Phase 1 evaluation framework for GAVI; supported the Global Health Workforce Alliance in developing a ten year strategy and business plan and was seconded to the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria (AMFm) in Geneva as Senior Policy Officer.

Paul Ehmer is HLSP's Senior Health Specialist based in Washington DC, USA. Paul has over 25 years' experience as a Foreign Service Officer with USAID and spent 22 years working in Tanzania, Morocco, Togo and Bolivia, before returning to Washington, where he was the Deputy Director of USAID’s Global Health team. In 2001, Paul led the Transitional Support Secretariat, which assisted the group of international partners developing the new funding mechanism for communicable diseases that would become the Global Fund.

Jack Eldon is HLSP’s Specialist leading on Governance and Institutional Development, with over 20 years experience in designing, implementing, managing and evaluating good governance, institutional development, capacity development and devolved service delivery projects and programmes in Africa and Asia including governance and service delivery in fragile and conflict-affected situations.

Nadia Gittins is HLSP’s Change Management Lead and Health Specialist, with strong experience in health systems and HIV, with particular focus on capacity building and institutional development. Nadia is a former Technical Advisor to the Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS of the Russian Ministry of Health and provided long term input to the DFID Change Agent Programme in Nigeria.

Ken Grant is HLSP’s Technical Director and Director, HLSP Institute. He is a public health doctor with particular expertise in organisational and institutional development, monitoring and evaluation, and public-private mix including the role of the private sector (formal and non formal) in interventions for malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS. Ken has wide ranging experience in health sector reform in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and has considerable experience in aid instruments including budget support and SWAps.

Robert (Bob) Grose is Director of the DFID Human Development Resource Centre. Bob has experience in international health development; health sector reform; design, monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes; capacity building; communicable diseases including HIV and AIDS and multi-sectoral working in Africa and Asia. Bob led the development and implementation of DFID’s biggest bilateral health assistance strategy in India and has recently been involved in the mid-term reviews of DFID funded human development Research Programme Consortia.

Yasmin Hadi is a Health Specialist with expertise in public and reproductive health. Yasmin has made recent contributions to studies of maternal and child health work aids for alternative providers and health systems reconstruction and state building in fragile states. Yasmin has long in-country experience in Pakistan as a Programme Officer, Research and Knowledge Management Coordinator.

John James is HLSP’s Technical Specialist leading on Child Health. With over 30 years experience of paediatric and primary care in the UK, Africa and China, John is highly experienced in the design, implementation, management and evaluation of international health sector reform projects. He is currently supporting the MoH in Botswana in development of a 10 year Integrated Strategic Health Plan.

Enamul Karim is a Health Specialist with wide experience of development and implementation of health sector reform in Asia, Africa and China. He is a public health doctor with expertise in planning, strategy, SWAps, HIV and AIDS, communicable diseases, safe motherhood and child health, project management and training.

David Lewis is a Health Specialist with substantial experience of the theory, roll out and implementation of SWAps, health systems strengthening, project design, management and appraisal procurement and logistics, reproductive health and HIV and AIDS. David has led design teams planning major new initiatives in reproductive health as well as involvement in the management and implementation of projects and programmes.

Bruce Mackay is HLSP’s Lead Specialist on Private Sector with a particular interest in HIV and AIDS, social marketing and private healthcare markets. Bruce worked on HIV and AIDS prevention and care in Kenya, and on social marketing in China, Pakistan and Nigeria and has recently worked on integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health for WHO and an assessment of the effectiveness of AIDS coordination bodies in the Middle East for UNAIDS.

Javier Martinez is HLSP’s Lead Specialist in Aid Effectiveness to the health sector with extensive international experience throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Javier’s expertise includes SWAps, budget support, health systems development, policy and strategy development, institutional development, human resource development, training, monitoring and evaluation.

Christine McLanachan is a Health Specialist with 20 years' developing country experience in health and integrated HIV and AIDS programming across the prevention, care and treatment continuum. Chris has a specialist interest in gender with substantive experience in promoting and supporting programming around gender, sexuality and HIV in Cambodia, Zimbabwe and Zambia and the wider southern Africa region.

Helen Merati is a Health Specialist and former General Manager of the DFID Health Resource Centre. Helen has experience in managing a portfolio of assignments for DFID, UN agencies, international foundations, NGOs and bilateral and multilateral agencies, as well as providing technical and research support.

Jackie Mundy is Director of the AusAID Health Resource Facility based in Canberra, and former lead HIV specialist for HLSP. Jackie has 15 years experience in the planning, implementation and review of programmes and projects in health and HIV and has specific interests in aid management, knowledge management and human capacity development with experience of collaborating at global and country levels with a range of agencies.

Diane Northway is a finance professional with over 25 years experience of finance, management and information systems relating to public finance management reforms, and health and education sector reform activities in government, NGO and private sectors. Diane is a seasoned project manager and has had extensive exposure to the financing and administrative requirements of different funding agencies.

Mark Pearson is HLSP’s Lead Specialist in Economics and Financing with more general expertise in aid effectiveness, aid instruments and SWAps at both global and country level. Mark has provided support for the Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, was involved in the evaluation of the GAVI Health Systems Strengthening, contributed to DFID’s guide to Financial Aid Instruments and has developed and delivered courses on aid effectiveness and health financing.

Claudia Sambo is a Health Specialist based in the HLSP Institute. She is an experienced researcher and technical writer, and her role includes developing knowledge products for the Institute. She has written training modules, briefing and policy notes, literature reviews and other materials for a range of organisations, including AusAID, DFID, UNFPA and UNESCO. 

Jennifer Sancho is a public health specialist with over 15 years experience in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean in health policy and planning, HIV, organisational development, project design and evaluation, health financing and change management. Jennifer has experience as long Term Leader for the Health Sector Reform programme in Guyana and supported the development of the Zambia Multi-Sectoral HIV and AIDS Strategic Framework. She is based in Trinidad & Tobago.

Catriona Waddington is a health economist at the HLSP Institute, with expertise in health systems, aid architecture and aid effectiveness, harmonisation and alignment and with long term experience in Africa and Asia. Catriona is involved in writing a number of health systems technical briefs for WHO and been closely involved with the GAVI Alliance’s window for Health System Strengthening.

Veronica Walford is a health economist with extensive experience in health sector analysis, planning and reform; health economics and financing; aid effectiveness, aid mechanisms and evaluation studies. Veronica’s experience includes support to DFID on the new Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria, policy development around the private sector in health and health financing and designing a major evaluation for GAVI. Veronica also has long term project experience in Uganda and Swaziland.

Olivier Weil is a French national and public health doctor who is a technical specialist with HLSP. For 10 years, Olivier led the French Ministry of Co-operation’s Scientific Committee for the evaluation of HIV and AIDS Programmes, and he has more than 15 years experience in the design, leadership, monitoring and evaluation of projects in the health sector for the World Bank, EU, WHO, regional development banks and bilateral donors.

Henrietta Wells is based in Thailand as Divisional Director for Health for the Asia Pacific region, providing technical and managerial oversight to all HLSP’s long and short-term health work in the region. Henrietta’s expertise includes HIV prevention and care, harm reduction, health systems and global partnerships. Henrietta has long term experience living and working in Southeast Asia as a health professional, including four years in Cambodia working with WHO.

John Wilson is Programme Manager for the DFID SARRAH Programme and previously both the DFID HIV Rapid Response Health Fund (RRHF) and the Multisectoral AIDS Programme (MSP) in South Africa. John has over twenty years experience in developing and managing public health programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa as a long-term, resident Project Director/Technical Advisor and has also provided short term public health technical assistance.

Keyvan Zahir is a public health physician with over 30 years professional experience in the UK, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia. Keyvan is an in house specialist with the HLSP Institute responsible for developing post graduate attachments for public health senior registrars and acting as the technical advisor to study tours to the UK. Keyvan was formerly Director of Public Health with three major Health Authorities in the UK.