Gavin Yamey is the Center’s Founder and Director. He is the Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute and a Professor of Public Policy at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy.
Osondu Ogbuoji is the Deputy Director and Research Lead at the Center. He is also a Research Scholar at the DGHI. Osondu focuses on the transition financing work undertaken at the Center.
Ipchita Bharali is a Policy Associate at the Center. Her areas of focus include domestic health financing and policy analysis, health aid transitions, health emergency preparedness at the global and national levels, and pathways to universal health coverage in various African, Asian, and Latin American countries.
Alicia Gonzalez serves as Program Coordinator at CPIGH and as a Clinical Research Coordinator with the Duke Department of Aging. She has a Master’s in Public Administration and brings experience in project management, research coordination, program operations, supporting research in global health, aging, and cognitive health.
OMAR KARLSSON
Omar Karlsson is a visiting research fellow at DGHI and Duke Population Research Institute and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Economic demography at Lund University in Sweden.
AYODAMOPE FAWOLE
Ayodamope Fawole is an Associate in Research at the Center, where he focuses on strengthening health systems through quantitative health impact assessments and policy relevant research.
Current Student Researchers
OANA DJIBORN
Oana Djibom is an undergraduate researcher studying Public Policy and Global Health at Duke University. Her interests include global healthcare accessibility, systems-level health reform, and addressing cultural drivers of health inequities within women’s health.
CLARA LEE
Collaborating Faculty
Jonathan Quick is an Associate Faculty Member of the Center. He is adjunct Professor of Global Health at DGHI, where he teaches global health policy, serves on foundation grant advisory boards, and mentors students.
Wenhui Mao is an Associate Faculty Member of the Center. She is Assistant Director of Programs at Duke Global Health Innovation Center and Innovations in Healthcare.
JUSTICE NONVIGNON
Justice Nonvignon, PhD is an adjunct faculty member at the Center. He is Adjunct Professor of Global Health at DGHI where he mentors students and collaborates with faculty on global health economics and financing. He is also Technical Director at Management Sciences for Health and Professor of Health Economics at University of Ghana School of Public Health.
Former Team Members
Armand Zimmerman was a Research Program Leader at the Center. He focused on the development and use of economic evaluations and other quantitative tools to inform implementation and scale up of evidence-based health interventions and policies in low- and middle-income countries.
MAGGIE CONLAN
Maggie Conlan was a Research Assistant at the center. Maggie has a Master of Science in Global Health from the Duke Global Health Institute. She has previous experience in emergency medicine, biomedical sciences, and French. Her main interests include health economics, global health policy and finance to drive the construction of sustainable long-term solutions to health challenge,
ZHULDYZ RAKHATOVA
Zhuldyz Rakhatova was a Research Assistant at the center and has a Master of Science in Global Health from the Duke Global Health Institute. She worked on the R&D Ecosystem Networks Project, designing a multi-dimensional database to map R&D networks and identify key hubs and global connectivity patterns for better financing strategies. She is passionate about improving access to medicine in low-resource settings, Zhuldyz leverages her background in Biochemistry to generate evidence and drive innovation in the production and distribution of medicines. Her research interests include healthcare markets, health economics and policy, and equitable access to medicine.
CATHY XIANG
SHEILLA FAITH BOSIRE
Sheilla Faith Bosire was a Research Assistant at the Center. Sheilla received her Master’s in Global Health, with a background in clinical medicine working on reforming the research and development ecosystem in Africa. Her interests lie in understanding the formulation of evidence-based policy practices and how these can inform healthcare strengthening through financing.