HLSP has an established team of Lead Specialists in a number of critical areas. The team assures technical quality, contributes to specialist learning and ensures that lessons learnt during the course of our work are synthesised and utilised to guarantee that the latest knowledge and practice guides our work.

Kevin Bellis, Communicable diseases
Kevin has excellent business and organisational development skills having practiced and advised on the management and organisational development of Health Care systems, particularly Tuberculosis and HIV services for international agencies[T1] and specifically in six African countries (Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda & Kenya). Kevin leads on technical issues in Communicable Diseases and has been involved in initiating, developing and implementing performance management systems for HIV & TB control at district, regional and national levels, including monitoring & evaluation systems, financial management, communication strategies and intersectoral collaboration in Africa. Prior to joining HLSP Kevin was long term Management Advisor to the National TB Control Programme and AIDS Chief Directorate, in the South African National Department of Health.

Adrienne Chattoe-Brown, Service delivery and health services
Adrienne has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Central Asia, the South Atlantic, and has extensive experience in China. In the course of her career with DFID, ODI and then HLSP, she has collaborated with a diverse range of organisations including UNFPA, the World Bank, and several European bilaterals. Her particular interests are integrating vertical programmes into sector wide approaches, facilitating the contribution of the for-profit and not-for-profit non-governmental sector, reproductive health commodity security and donor coordination.

Jack Eldon, Governance & Institutional Development
Jack has over 20 years experience designing, implementing, managing and reviewing decentralised governance and devolved service delivery projects and programmes in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In addition he has provided policy, technical and management support to central governments planning and implementing decentralised governance programmes. As HLSP’s Governance and Institutional Development Expert he is responsible for developing new business in upstream governance and multi-sectoral work for HLSP and sister companies, in particular Cambridge Education and Mott MacDonald's Water division. With a good understanding of the decentralisation agenda, Jack has proven experience of designing and managing major local government capacity building programmes involving institutional, organisational and human resource development. Jack was previously long term Senior Governance Adviser with British Council providing technical leadership in governance and service delivery projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Javier Martinez, Aid effectiveness
Javier is a public health consultant, his experience includes sector planning and reforms, human resource development, and approaches to improve the effectiveness of aid such as SWAps, programme support and harmonisation and alignment at country level. He joined HLSP in 1998, and has held the posts of Regional Manager and Director for the Latin America and Caribbean region. Javier has also been a senior lecturer in health systems development at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Jackie Mundy, HIV and AIDS
Jackie's consultancy work includes reviewing the way forward for the national rollout of anti-retroviral therapy for AIDS treatment based on a systems development approach for Kenya; Team Leader for the initial design mission of the DFID Southern Africa Regional HIV/AIDS and STD Programme. Jackie has also been involved in drafting papers on anti retrovirals for AIDS and prevention of MTCT transmission of HIV – summarising the evidence base and presenting key health systems related issues for resource-poor countries. Prior to joining HSLP Jackie was Manager of the DFID Health & Population Aid Effectiveness Project responsible for developing a system for ongoing monitoring and performance management of DFID investment in health and population. For three years, Jackie was also Health and Population Field Manager with DFID in Kenya responsible for leading the design of a support for the HIV/AIDS Programme, with a focus on treatment for STDs, IEC and NGOs.

Mark Pearson, Economics and financing
Mark has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Mark spent over 10 years as an Economist with DFID, during which he spent 3 years in Health and Population Division, 3 years as Senior Economist in the Ministry of Health, Uganda and 3 years as a Planner in Botswana. Mark's most recent work has focused on public expenditure reviews, sector strategy development, financing issues around the global health partnerships and aid instruments.

Catharine Taylor, Maternal and neonatal health
Catharine has worked in several Asian and African countries in the area of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Catharine specializes in the design and implementation of human resource development approaches and health facility strengthening. Previous work includes the design and implementation of the technical approaches for the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project between 1997-1999 and support for the development of the SCUS Vietnam maternal health programme in 1999-2002. She has also worked extensively with Civil Society Organizations, building institutional capacity to integrate SRH into programming, including youth programming and demand creation activities for maternal health services.

Monika Zabel, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
With almost twenty years international work experience, Monika has assumed a number of significant management positions in large-scale monitoring and evaluation contracts assigned by the EC, UN agencies and other international donors. Most recently she has been Area Manager for Latin America, Mission Leader and Member of the core management team of the global ALA, ACP, MEDA and the Balkans Monitoring Contract for the European Commission. Monika has been responsible for monitoring regional programmes and national projects in various sectors - rural development, education & training, government reform, health, water, civil society and enterprise development. She is the author of a Strategy Paper on Monitoring Multi-donor and Regional Programmes and co-author of the handbook for results oriented monitoring.