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Our Team

The Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) is a diverse, global community of practitioners and policymakers dedicated to the vision of health for all.

Our country-led and country-driven approach succeeds as the result of highly engaged members and partners.

 

STEERING GROUP
COUNTRY CORE GROUP LEADS
NETWORK MANAGER
TECHNICAL FACILITATORS
PARTNERS

STEERING GROUP

The JLN Steering Group ensures the network remains country-led and country-driven by setting the strategic direction and reflecting country member priorities in the network’s learning activities.

Profile photo of Dr. Isabel Maina

Dr. Isabel Maina

Steering Group Convener; Member of the UHC coordination department and Head of Health financing division, Kenya

Ebrahim Al Nawakhtha

Steering Group Convener; Secretary General, Supreme Council of Health, Bahrain

Dinash Aravind

Steering Group Co-Convener
Senior Principal Assistant Director, National Health Financing, Planning Division; Ministry of Health, Malaysia

Dr. Bocar Daff speaking during the 2019 JLN Global Meeting

Dr. Bocar Daff

Steering Group Co-Convener
Directeur Général, l’Agence de la Couverture Maladie Universelle, Senegal

Prof. Ali Ghufron Mukti

President Director of Social Security Administering Body for Health, Indonesia

Adolfo Martinez Valle

Research Professor in Policy, Population, and Health at Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

Atty. Eli Dino P. Santos

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of PhilHealth, Philippines

George P. Jacobs

Assistant Minister for Policy and Planning, Liberia

Dr. Shirley Domingo

Vice President of Corporate Affairs Group, Philippines

Anas Rihani

Morocco 

Kenneth G. Ronquillo

Assistant Secretary of Health, UHC Chair of the Special Health Fund Working Group, Philippines

Dr. Randa Hamadeh

Head of Primary Healthcare and Social Health, Lebanon

Ethan Wong

Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr. Muhammed Anis Bin Abd Wahab

Deputy Director, National Health Financing, Planning Division; Ministry of Health, Malaysia

Dr. Rahul Reddy

 Executive Director, Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN), Amref Health Africa

Abdelouahab Belmadani

Directeur, Direction de la Planification et des Ressources Financières, Ministère de la Santé, Morocco

Dr. Christina El Khoury

Technical Primary Healthcare Coordinator, Lebanon

Somil Nagpal

Senior Health Specialist, World Bank; Health Finance initiative

Dr. Youssoupha Ndiaye

Director of Planning, Research, and Statistics, Senegal

Nguyen Khanh Phuong

Deputy Director of Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Vietnam

Ibu Kalsum Kmaryani

Head of the Center for Health Financing and National Health Insurance, Indonesia

Dr. Mario C. Villaverde

Undersecretatry of Health Policy and Systems Development, Philippines

Dr. Khuong Anh Tuan

Vietnam

Ernest Gonyon

Acting Director of Health Financing, Liberia

Country Core Group Leads

Every full member country of the JLN organizes a Country Core Group (CCG) as a governing body for its participation in the network. CCGs bring together leaders from key government institutions and development partners working on universal health coverage reforms to define their country’s priorities and ensure that learning is shared and applied within the country. 

Abdallah Sid Ahmed Osman Elhag

Public Health Institute Director; Ministry of Health, Sudan

Adolfo Martinez Valle

Steering Group Co-Convener; Director General, Performance Evaluation, Ministry of Health, Mexico

Ali Ghufron Mukti

Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Indonesia

Dr. Bocar Daff

Directeur Général, l’Agence de la Couverture Maladie Universelle, Senegal 

Dr Rozita Halina binti Tun Hussein

Director, Planning Division; Ministry of Health, Malaysia

Dr. Nneka Orji

Senior Health Economist; Department of Health Planning Research and Statistics, Ministry of Health, Nigeria

Dr. Sissi Odile Dakouo Kone

Director of Social Action Division; National Directorate of Protection and Social Solidarity, Ministry of Health, Mali

Profile photo of Dr. Isabel Maina

Dr. Isabel Maina

Member of the UHC coordination department and Head of Health financing division

Alok Saxena

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India

Dr. Israel Pargas

Senior Vice President, Health Finance Policy Sector, PhilHealth, Philippines

Dr. Zakir Hussain

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh

Soonman Kwon

Professor, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Korea

Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby

Steering Group Co-Convener; Acting Chief Executive, National Health Insurance Scheme, Ghana

Mideksa Adugna

Resource Mobilization Acting Director; Ministry of Health, Ethiopia

Dr. Phuong Nguyen Khanh

 Head of Health Economics Department; Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Vietnam

Roland Yarsieh Kesselly

Director of Health Financing; Ministry of Health, Liberia

Tumurtogoo Dorjgochoo

Mongolia

Network Manager

The Network Manager was formed in 2018 to administer the JLN’s day-to-day operations on behalf of the Steering Group and country members. Currently, Amref Health Africa serves as the JLN Network Manager.

Dr. Rahul Reddy

 Executive Director; Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN), Amref Health Africa. 

Dr. James Soki

Programme Manager; JLN Amref Health Africa 

Dr. Isha Sharma

Programme Officer (Technical Initiative and Country Engagement); JLN Amref Health Africa

Dr. Donnelly Mwachi

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Knowledge Management Manager, JLN Amref Health Africa

Jane Nyambura

Programme Officer, Support Functions, JLN Amref Health Africa

Titus Kisangau

Communications Officer; JLN Amref Health Africa

Technical Facilitators

Technical facilitators lead the network’s joint learning activities by working with member country practitioners to systematically harvest country experiences and to help countries co-create practical knowledge and solutions that countries can adapt to advance their universal health coverage reforms.

Aditi Nigam

Health Financing Specialist, World Bank; Domestic Resource Mobilization collaborative

Agnes Munyua

Senior Program Officer, Results for Development; Provider-Payment Mechanisms initiative

Ajay Tandon

Senior Economist, World Bank; Health Finance initiative

Allyson English

Senior Program Associate, Results for Development; Provider-Payment Mechanisms initiative

Amanda Glassman

Executive Vice President, Center for Global Development; Health Finance initiative

Anna Shaw

Communications Associate, Center of Digital Excellence; Information Environment and Other Cross-cutting initiative

Asaf Bitton

Executive Director, Ariadne Labs; Service Delivery and Quality including PHC initiative

Caren Althauser

Independent Consultant; Information Environment and Other Cross-cutting initiative

Cheryl Cashin

Managing Director, Results for Development; Provider-Payment Mechanisms initiative

Danielle Bloom

Senior Health Financing Specialist, World Bank; Health Finance initiative

Hannah Ratcliffe

Research Specialist, Ariadne Labs; Service Delivery and Quality including PHC initiative

Henok Yemane

Program Manager, Results for Development; Provider-Payment Mechanisms initiative

Jeanna Holtz

Health Financing Director, SHOPS Plus; Private Sector Engagement exchange

Jerry La Forgia

Chief Technical Officer and Founding Director, Aceso Global; Population Targeting initiative

Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou

 Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development; Health Finance initiative

Kamaliah Noh

Associate Professor, Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences, Malaysia; Provider-Payment Mechanisms initiative

Lauren Oliveira Hashiguchi

Health Systems Researcher, World Bank; Efficiency and Domestic Resource Mobilization collaboratives

Lisa Hirschhorn

Director; Implementation and Improvement Science Platform, Northwestern University; Service Delivery and Quality initiative

Lydia Ndebele

Knowledge Management Analyst, World Bank; Health Finance initiative

Maria Eugenia Bonilla Chacin

Lead Economist, World Bank

Naina Ahluwalia

Consultant, World Bank; Efficiency collaborative

Ndiangui Joseph Githinji

Health Management Consultant

Rachel Rosen DeLong

Associate, Health Finance and Economics, Abt Associates; Private Sector Engagement exchange

Reem Hafez

Senior Economist, World Bank; Health Finance initiative

Somil Nagpal

Senior Health Specialist, World Bank; Health Finance initiative

Trudy Bearden

Senior Consultant, Qualis Health; Person-Centered Integrated Care initiative

Y-Ling Chi

Professor, Imperial College; Health Finance initiative

Partners

The JLN is supported by a diverse group partners who serve as technical facilitators and provide financial support for learning activities.

Qualis Health USA

Abt Associates

ACCESS Health International

Aceso Global

Ariadne Labs

Center for Global Development

Harmonization for Health in Africa

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

International Decision Support Initiative

Japan International Cooperation Agency

Management Sciences for Health

NICE International

PATH

PharmAccess

Results for Development Institute

USAID Health Finance and Governance Project