Our Team
Meet the Dedicated Team Driving Metrics for Management’s Global Health Impact!
Metrics for Management Staff
Dr. Nirali Chakraborty, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Nirali Chakraborty is the CEO of Metrics for Management. M4M provides data driven insights to assist health service organizations in measuring and improving their performance. Nirali has been with M4M since 2016 and was appointed CEO in May 2024.
In her previous roles at M4M, as Director of Research and Technical Assistance, and Chief Strategy Officer, Nirali worked to create simple and standard measures of health service performance, conducting research and evaluations, and expanding the health areas in which M4M operates.
Prior to her work at M4M, Dr. Chakraborty oversaw the quality and dissemination of Population Services International’s reproductive health related research internationally. She has expertise in quantitative research methods, and has published on social franchising, health equity, health workforce performance, reproductive health and maternal health. Nirali received her PhD in International Health, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and still resides in Baltimore with her family.
Andrea Sprockett, MIPH, MA
Chief Operating Officer
Andrea Sprockett oversees all programmatic and day-to-day operations for Metrics for Management, ensuring a systematic approach to project development, financial and strategic planning, advocacy efforts, and partnership development.
Andrea brings expertise in the management of large cross-cultural teams and community engagement initiatives, having previously served as the Director of Global Health Education at Stanford University and as an analyst of social franchising initiatives and health metric development at the University of California, San Francisco. Additionally, Andrea has worked as the program director for AmeriCorps’ Northeast Ohio Literacy Corps and a project manager for One Planet.
She holds a master’s degree in International Public Health from the University of Sydney, a master’s degree in Translation from Kent State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and in International Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Dr. Andrew Corley, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN
Global Health Research Associate
Andrew supports Metrics for Management’s research and technical assistance activities. Prior to joining Metrics for Management, Andrew worked as a registered nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a retired Peace Corps Volunteer (Benin ‘08-’10), is fluent in French, and has experience in facilitating grassroots health, economic, and gender empowerment programs.
Andrew has conducted and published on research related to humanitarian health, gender norms, food security, and adolescent health. He received his PhD in Nursing from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Andrew also holds a Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing and Public Health.
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Dr. Claire Dunn, PhD, MA
Global Health Research Associate
Claire supports Metrics for Management’s research and technical assistance activities as a Global Health Research Associate. Prior to joining Metrics for Management, she was a graduate researcher and instructor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Brazil. She also previously worked on the finance and operations team at Management Sciences for Health.
Claire has conducted and published research on the politics of poverty and inequality. In this work, she has examined how politics impact policy design and public investment in social policies such as healthcare. She is fluent in Portuguese and proficient in Spanish. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Dr. Yuen Wai Hung, PhD, MHS
Global Health Research Associate
Waiwai supports Metrics for Management’s research and technical assistance activities. Prior to joining Metrics for Management, Waiwai worked as a senior consultant at Salient Advisory and Impact for Health. She also previously completed the ASPPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellowship in Guyana and worked on monitoring and evaluation of health programs for the International Medical Corps in Iraq.
Waiwai has conducted research and published articles on health services utilization, injury epidemiology, injury surveillance, engagement with the private health sector, and mental health. She is fluent in Chinese. Waiwai received her PhD in International Health, with a concentration in Health Systems, and her MHS with a concentration in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Maxwell Owusu, MS
Global Health Research Analyst
Maxwell supports Metrics for Management’s research and technical assistance activities as a Global Health Research Analyst. Prior to joining Metrics for Management, Maxwell worked as a Graduate Researcher in the Department of Geography at George Washington University. He also served as a Researcher at the University of Twente, where he focused on population, health, deprivation and poverty analysis and mapping.
Maxwell has conducted research and published articles on population, poverty and deprivation analysis. He holds a master’s degree in Geography from George Washington University, a master’s degree in Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation from University of Twente, Netherlands and a bachelor’s in Human Settlement Planning from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
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Meghna Ray, MPH
Global Health Research Analyst
Meghna supports Metrics for Management’s research and technical assistance activities as a Global Health Research Analyst. Her professional experience includes working for the CDC’s Emergency Response Capacity Team, supporting the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS), and working as a healthcare consultant for Optum (UnitedHealth Group). Meghna has conducted research and has published on neonatal mortality, rheumatic heart disease, cardiovascular health awareness, and community-based natural resource management.
Meghna received her MPH in Global Health from Emory University with concentrations in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, and Community Health Development. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Social Science from Dartmouth College.
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Mark Hanley
Webmaster
Mark Hanley supports Metrics for Management’s work as a webmaster. He is a full stack developer and designer which draws on years of diverse experience from the development, design and systems management processes.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Alex Ergo, MSc, PhD
Alex Ergo is the Director, Health Systems at Population Services International (PSI), where he is currently shaping and leading PSI’s youngest department, the Health Systems Accelerator. He has over 25 years of experience in developing more efficient health systems and tackling health inequities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) around the world.
He has worked with several multilateral, bilateral and international nongovernmental organizations during his career. He started with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a remote part of Chad, where he helped to rebuild a health system that had collapsed as a result of decades of conflict. Since then, he has worked with the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and bilateral donors such as USAID and DANIDA. He has advised Ministries of Health in various countries, such as Bhutan, Malawi and Senegal, and influenced policy at both global and national levels. For example, he shaped global thinking around universal health coverage by introducing the concept of “progressive universalism” in a Lancet article co-authored with Dave Gwatkin. In Myanmar, he led efforts to first formulate and then orchestrate implementation of the National Health Plan that aimed to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage in a pro-poor way.
Alex combines a deep understanding of the global health landscape and its key players with an appreciation of the realities and challenges faced in LMICs. He received his master’s degree in Health Economics from the University of York in the UK and his PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US.
Alix Faddoul, MPH, MSc
Alix Faddoul is a global health professional with a background in improving access to essential services in fragile and conflict-affected areas, and a focus on the Middle East. She is interested in strategies to mitigate the health impacts of climate change in low- and-middle income countries, especially on young children.
Alix currently serves as a consultant for the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) at the World Bank. She provides technical assistance to country governments on private sector engagement for health system strengthening.
She holds a MSc in Management from the ESSEC Business School and an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Krishna Jafa, MBBS, MPH
Dr. Krishna Jafa is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medic. Medic’s mission is to advance good health, human flourishing, and equitable care for and with the hardest-to-reach communities. Medic serves as the technical steward and a core contributor to the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), an open-source platform that supports health workers as they provide essential care in their communities.
A physician and epidemiologist with 25 years of experience, Dr. Jafa previously held key leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Population Services International, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she oversaw financing, fundraising, design, management, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of health programs and research across the donor, private, non-governmental, and public sectors globally.
As a board member, Dr. Jafa brings deep expertise in health systems strengthening, digital health innovation, and building and steering global partnerships and teams toward achieving universal health care. A deeply committed advocate for women’s and girls’ empowerment, health, and reproductive rights, Krishna holds a Medical degree from Rajasthan University (India), an MPH from Harvard University (USA), is an alumna of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, and is on the Board of the Washington Center for Bleeding Disorders.
Dr. Pritika Kumar, PhD, MPH, MA
Dr. Pritika Kumar is a senior public health leader with an extensive background of over 25 years, dedicating her expertise to programs, research, and policy initiatives across domains such as HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health, social and behavioral change, as well as harm reduction strategies related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, alongside a focus on mental health advocacy. Her journey in public health commenced as a school psychologist in New Delhi, India, and evolved into a commitment to the advancement of public health practices and support for marginalized communities.
Dr. Kumar is an alumna of both the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her career path has been diverse, encompassing roles in civil society, as well as pivotal engagements with multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and World Bank. Across these diverse settings, her primary emphasis has been on crafting and managing programs that address social determinants of health, champion health equity, foster youth development, advocate for social justice, and enhance patient experiences within healthcare systems.
Driven by a passion for integrating behavior theories, leveraging social capital, and social norms to ensure equitable access, Dr. Kumar’s recent role as a senior fellow in integrated harm reduction policy has significantly broadened her reach, allowing her to influence health policies on a broader scale. Dr. Kumar’s dedication to public health and her breadth of experience uniquely positions her as an invaluable asset, committed to leveraging her expertise for the betterment of communities and the advancement of inclusive health policies.
Dr. Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MBA, MPH
Dominic’s guidance of Metrics for Management’s mission and approach draws on years of diverse experience in LMICs that includes both academic research and management of development INGO health initiatives. Dominic’s work is focused on the private delivery of health services in developing countries and on measuring and improving health service quality for maternal and reproductive services. He has worked and taught in over 30 countries around the world.
In addition to his role as M4M CEO, Dominic is a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of UCSF. His current research projects are focused on maternal and neonatal health and social and reproductive health quality in a range of public and private facilities in Kenya and Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Barbara O’Hanlon, MPP
Barbara O’Hanlon is a recognized leader in international health policy design and implementation with over 38 years’ experience. Ms. O’Hanlon is a pioneer in the areas of private sector policy reforms, public-private dialogue, and health public-private partnerships. Recently, she was a member of the World Health Organization’s Private Sector Advisory group charged to develop guidance for government ministries on how to effectively steward mixed health systems.
In the last 17 years, she has worked with several low- and middle-income health ministries to conduct private health sector assessments, analyze key health markets for private sector opportunities, formulate private sector policies, and establish health PPP Units. Ms. O’Hanlon has also supported several African health ministries to engage the private sector using a variety of policy instruments such as policy dialogue, contracting and other financial mechanisms, and public-private partnerships.
She also supports African healthcare federations to become viable membership organizations and strengthens their technical capacity to represent the private sector voice in policy design and implementation. As one of the co-authors of the MM4H course, Ms. O’Hanlon has trained health ministry officials from over 15 countries and development partner public health staff in the managing health markets approach. Ms. O’Hanlon’s firm consults for a wide range of clients active in global health policy including the World Bank Group, UK Aid, USAID, World Health Organization, among others. Ms. O’Hanlon has a M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University.
Dr. Onikepe Owolabi, PhD, MSc
Dr. Onikepe Owolabi is currently the Senior Global Director of MNCH/FP at IntraHealth International, where she and her team provide technical input to a wide suite of projects in multiple countries that work on women’s and children’s health, immunization, nutrition, and non-communicable diseases.
Prior to joining IntraHealth, she was a Senior Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute where she used her training in epidemiological methods and her clinical background to focus her research on measuring the burden of unsafe abortion, maternal morbidity, and the delivery of maternal and reproductive health services in low- and middle-income countries.
She has also worked as a research fellow in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She earned a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, an MSc in global health science from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in epidemiology and population health at LSHTM.
Dr. Tryphine Zulu, MSc, MPH, PhD
Tryphine Zulu is a Health Insurance Executive based in South Africa. She is a health economist, with extensive experience in using data for improved population health outcomes, provider contracting and utilization risk management in the context of private health insurance. She also serves on the World Health Organization’s advisory committee on governance of the private sector for universal health coverage.
She has a keen interest in the analysis and the understanding of social determinants of health as drivers of socio-economic inequalities and inequities in the effective coverage of healthcare services for both insured and uninsured populations.
She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) from the University of Zimbabwe, an MSc (Med) in Pharmacotherapy from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MPH (Health Economics) and a PhD in Public Health (Health Economics) from the University of Cape Town.
GLOBAL ADVISORS
Seye Abimbola, MD, PhD
Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia Research Fellow, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Nigeria
Seye Abimbola is a medically qualified public health specialist with expertise in health policy and systems research. He has worked as both a health care provider and researcher primarily in low- and middle-income countries. He is a Research Fellow at the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja, Nigeria where he works on health and community systems strengthening, as well as a Lecturer in International Public Health at the University of Sydney. His research interests are in developing and testing conceptual tools and analytical approaches to understand and strengthen health system governance in low- and middle-income countries, with special interest in primary health care. Seye is also the Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Global Health.
Seye holds an MBChB in Medicine and Surgery from Obafemi Awolowo University, an MPhil from the University of Sydney in Public Health (Epidemiology), and a PhD from the University of Sydney in Health Policy and Systems.
YJ Choi, PhD
Demographer & Data Scientist for Global Development
YJ Choi is a demographer with strong interest and extensive experience in interpretation and translation of research and data for various audiences. She has methodological expertise in household and health facility surveys, and monitoring and evaluation; and subject expertise in health information systems, family planning and reproductive health, and child and neonatal survival. Dr. Choi was formerly the Deputy Director for PMA2020 and Senior Technical Advisor for Population and Metrics at USAID. She earned her DrPH from Johns Hopkins University.
Davidson Gwatkin
Consultant
Davidson Gwatkin is a Senior Fellow at the Results for Development Institute, and a Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
He serves as an adviser on health and poverty to the World Bank, UNICEF, and other agencies.
From 2000-03, he was the World Bank’s Principal Health and Poverty Specialist. Before joining the Bank, he had directed the International Health Policy Program, a cooperative effort between two American foundations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organizations to strengthen health policy research capacity in Africa and Asia.
He had previously been with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, New York, and Lagos; and with the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C.
Christopher Hest
Nonprofit Management and Resource Mobilization Leader
Chris has delivered more than 30 years of superior nonprofit management and philanthropy leadership through organizations as varied as foundations led by two former U.S. presidents; prosocial organizations improving global health and livelihood development; a social justice NGO proving the value of cash versus in-kind aid for the extreme poor; the world’s largest conservation organization; and more. In the first half of his career he designed and executed successful capital campaigns for an array of cultural institutions. Through consulting engagements he is now committed to combating climate change; protecting democracy and a free press; and improving equity, health, and economic opportunity around the globe.
Mari Kuraishi, MA
Co-founder & President, GlobalGiving, Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Mari Kuraishi, the co-founder and president of GlobalGiving, is the President of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. Prior to co-founding GlobalGiving, Kuraishi led the Corporate Strategy Group at the World Bank where she was responsible for setting corporate priorities and engendering business innovation for an international financial institution dedicated to fighting poverty worldwide; and was the country anchor and officer for the bank’s Russia program, where she coordinated a sovereign lending program at its Washington, D.C., headquarters. She is chair of the board of directors for GuideStar, USA; chair of the board of directors for DataKind; chair of the board of directors for APOPO US; and a member of the board of advisors for the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Mari earned her bachelor’s degree in Modern European History and master’s degree in Russian Studies from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Kim Longfield, PhD, MPH
Founder and Principal, Databoom
Dr. Kim Longfield is the founder of Databoom, a research and communication agency that believes powerful insights can shape the world. Databoom provides research counsel for organizations that want to push development boundaries and accelerate impact.
Kim’s areas of expertise include translating evidence into practice, stakeholder engagement, strategic advising and communications, resource planning, and research studies fit for purpose. She has worked in social marketing, behavior change, social franchising, and market and health systems strengthening. Her research has focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, reproductive health and family planning, safe abortion, maternal and child health, malaria, tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases, gender empowerment, and governance.
Prior to founding Databoom, Kim served as Director of Strategic Research and Evaluation at Population Services International, a global health nonprofit with $600 million in annual revenues and offices in more than 60 countries around the world. Kim has a PhD in Sociology and International Health and a MPH in International Health/Health Communication and Education, both from the Tulane University. She is based in Washington, DC.
Sasha Montagu
Consultant
Mr. Montagu is an independent consultant and small business owner in Alberta, Canada where he owns land that he leases to an organic beef producer.
He divides his time between Alberta and Montana, and has traveled widely throughout the world.
Mr. Montagu is a board member of the Alchemy Foundation and has spent significant time in Africa to provide oversight of foundation-supported programs.
Lynn Sibley, RN, CNM, PhD
Professor emerita, Emory University
Professor emerita Dr. Sibley is a certified Nurse Midwife and Medical Anthropologist, with a more than 20 year career at Emory University. She has focused on advancing midwifery education and improving care delivery and health outcomes for mothers and newborns around the world. During her career, Dr. Sibley has developed and tested community-based strategies to reduce maternal and newborn morbidity in developing countries.
