Team | M4MGMT

Christopher Hest

Director Of Strategy & Partnerships

Chris Conducts Metrics For Management’s strategy development and partnership engagement activities.

He has more than 30 years of nonprofit leadership, including having served two former U.S. Presidents in philanthropy mobilization roles.

He led East Meets West/Thrive Networks’ Pediatric Health Programs in Asia and Africa and headed an NGO that built and operates an acclaimed pediatric hospital, satellite clinic, and community health programs in Cambodia.

Chris also directed resource and partnership development at Freedom From Hunger, a nicrofinance institution working on three continents, and Living Goods, a micro-franchising social enterprise in East Africa.

Earlier Chris worked for the Nature Conservancy and San Francisco Symphony after many years of designing andexecuting dozens of successful capital fundraising campaigns for an array of NGOs in the U.S. and Canada. He is a graduate of Duke University.

Davidson Gwatkin PhD (Advisor)

Senior Fellow, Results for Development

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.

Malabika Sarker MD, PhD, MPH

Professor And Acting Dean At The James P. Grant School Of Public Health, BRAC

Dr. Sarker serves as a Professor and Acting Dean at BRAC University. She has held positions as a community-based reproductive health programmer at the Marie Stopes Clinic Society, BRAC health program Consultant and Zonal Health Manager, and Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg.

Her scholarly interests include impact evaluation, universal health coverage with minimal economic compromise and the role of Information Communications Technology (ICT) in improving health information systems.

Dr. Sarker is a Bangladeshi physician with a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from Harvard University and a PhD in Public Health from University of Heidelberg, Germany. She has been a Population Council Fellow and Fogarty Fellow at the University of Alabama, USA.

William Savedoff PhD, MA

Senior Fellow, Center For Global Development

Dr. Savedoff is a Senior Fellow at the Center For Global Development where he works on issues of aid effectiveness and health policy.

His current research focuses on the use of performance payments in Aid programs and problems posed by corruption.

At the center, Savedoff played a leading role in the Evaluation Gap Initiative and co-authored Cash On Delivery Aid with Nancy Birdsall.

Before joining the center, Savedoff prepared, coordinated, and advised development projects In Latin America, Africa and Asia for the Inter-American Development Bank and The World Health Organization.

As a senior partner at Social Insight, Savedoff worked for clients including The National Institutes Of Health, Transparency International, and The World Bank.

Sasha Montagu

Independent Consultant; Board Treasurer

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.

Kim Longfield PhD, MPH

Director For Strategic Research And Evaluation, Consultant

Kim Longfield has worked for PSI since 2001. She leads a strategic research unit that provides evidence about the effectiveness of PSI’s work and using that evidence to inform internal strategy as well as global best practices.

Kim’s expertise is using evidence to develop, monitor, and evaluate social marketing and social franchising programs, and analyzing and strengthening health markets.

She is also highly skilled in quantitative and qualitative research, health metrics, and studies among populations at high risk for HIV/AIDS.

Kim has a PhD in Sociology and International Health and a MPH in International Health/Health Communication and Education, both from Tulane University.

Robert (Nap) Hosang MD, MPH, MBA

CEO, Pelagius, Inc.

Dr. Hosang is CEO of Pelagius, Inc. and a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.

He has more than 20 years of experience advising many national governments on the design of maternity health services to reduce maternal mortality and improve birth outcomes.

His work as a senior medical group administrator at a Kaiser Permanente (KP) Medical Center in Northern California for 12 years made him extremely familiar hospital operations, including vendor contracting, pharmacy operations oversight, prenatal care protocols, labor ward and operating room management, neonatal services to support high risk obstetrics and the use of the integrated electronic medical record system at Kaiser Permanente.

Nap is also familiar with the hospital accreditation system in the USA, having successfully coordinated compliance preparation of pharmacy and maternal health services for tri-annual Joint Commission Accreditation (JCAHO) exercises for more than a decade.

He retired from active clinical practice in 2010 to spend more time on public health endeavors.

Steven Chapman PhD, JD

Director, Evidence, Measurement And Evaluation At The

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF); Board President

At CIFF, Steven Chapman Is Responsible For The Health And Climate Change Grant Portfolio.

He Holds A PhD In Population Dynamics And Was Previously The Chief Conservation Officer At The World Wildlife Fund In The United States. Prior To WWF, He Served As The Research Director And Chief Technical Officer At Population Services International, Leading Research And Development And Learning For Social Marketing And Behavior Change Interventions For Health Programs In Nearly 70 Developing Countries.

Dr. Chapman Has Also Worked At The Netherlands Organization For Applied Scientific Research In Health Systems And Technology Assessment, Marie Stopes International In Reproductive Health Service Delivery And The Peace Corps In Agricultural Market Development In Togo.

Karen Chang MHS, PhD

Global Health Research Analyst

Karen Chang supports research and technical assistance activities at Metrics for Management.

She is experienced in conducting quantitative research and program evaluation in a variety of topic areas, including newborn health and infectious diseases, specifically in low- and middle-income settings.

She previously served as an Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Tanzania, where she coordinated research and evaluation activities in the laboratory and blood safety branches.

Karen earned a Master of Health Science degree in International Health, with a focus on Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and holds a PhD in the same program.

Karla Fesser MPH

Global Health Research Analyst

Karla supports research and technical assistance activities. Drawing on her time with non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and state and federal public health agencies, Karla brings a wide range of experience in research methodology, data collection and analysis.

She has worked previously as an epidemiologist with the Georgia Emerging Infections Program and as a public health microbiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she specialized in neglected tropical disease elimination programs.

She has also served as the Director of Research for Water Ecuador, an organization devoted to research and advocacy for improved drinking water access in South and Central America. She is a graduate of Towson University and earned her Master’s in Public Health at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

Nirali Chakraborty PhD

Director of Research & Technical Assistance

Nirali Chakraborty leads our research and technical assistance activities. She formerly oversaw the quality and dissemination of Population Services International’s reproductive health related research internationally.

Nirali also previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank and Broad Branch Associates, specializing in health systems and performance based financing, and has expertise in quantitative research methods.

Nirali has conducted research in, and published articles on, social franchising, health equity, health workforce performance and maternal health. She is fluent in English and French, and proficient in 3 Indian sub-continent languages, Gujarati, Hindi and Bengali.Nirali received her PhD in International Health, with a concentration in Health Systems, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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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 a 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.

Dominic Montagu DrPH, MBA, MPH

CEO and Founder

Dominic Montagu’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.

His current research projects are focused on MNH and SRH quality in a range of public and private facilities in Kenya and Uttar Pradesh, India.

Dominic is also the co-chair of the Social Franchising Metrics Working Group, and the founder and CEO of the NGO, Metrics for Management.

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OUR TEAM

M4M STAFF

Dominic Montagu DrPH, MBA, MPH

Andrea Sprockett, MIPH, MA

Nirali Chakraborty, PhD

Karla Fesser, MPH

Karen Chang, MHS, PhD

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Steven Chapman, PhD, JD

Robert (Nap) Hosang, MD, MPH, MBA

Kim Longfield, PhD, MPH

Sasha Montagu

William Savedoff, PhD, MA

Malabika Sarker, MD, PhD, MPH

ADVISORY BOARD

Davidson Gwatkin, MPA (Advisor)

Christopher Hest