WomenLift Health has selected the emerging leaders below to participate in the sixth North America Cohort of the Leadership Journey, a fully-funded leadership initiative designed to support women through the challenges and opportunities of advancing to senior leadership positions in global health.
Cohort A

Alden Nouga-Ngog
Senior Partnerships Advisor, USAID Global Health Bureau/Office of Population and Reproductive Health

Alison Koler
Deputy Director, Orphans and Vulnerable Children and DREAMS, Pact

Amarynth Sichel
Senior Digital Health Advisor, USAID

Amy Boldosser-Boesch
Senior Director, Health Policy, Advocacy, and Engagement and Integrated Health Care, Management Sciences for Health

Amy Finnegan
Deputy Director, Data Science, IntraHealth International

Anna Kalbarczyk
Assistant Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health

Anna Temu
Associate Director, Clinical Project Management, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM)

Anne Njoroge
Digital Health Informatician, International Training and Education Center for Health (ITECH), University of Washington

Beryne Odeny
Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Bhakti Hansoti
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Eileen Dunne
Senior Director, Scientific Affairs and Epidemiology, Pfizer

Elizabeth Kohlway
Director, Global Community Engagement & Applied Learning, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Farnaz Malik
Senior Technical Advisor, Vital Strategies

Frances Ilika
Director, Health Systems, Palladium Group Global

Janani Vijayaraghavan
Health Advisor, Plan International Canada

Jennifer Guertin
Chief of Growth, Zenysis

Jessica Backman-Levy
Associate Professor of Practice, Washington University in St Louis

Jessica Celentano
Management Lead, UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Joanna Skinner
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Lead, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Katherine Bliss
Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Lesley Park
Senior Research Scientist; Executive Director, Stanford University School of Medicine

Lisa Saldanha
Senior Nutrition Specialist, World Bank Group

Lisa Smith
Global Program Leader, Market Dynamics, PATH

Mariam Zameer
Director, Health Systems; Immunization Lead, VillageReach

Nikita Boston-Fisher
Associate Director, Laidley Centre for Business Ethics & Equity, McGill University

Sameera Hussain
Director, Public Health Agency of Canada

Shelby Cash
Health Scientist

Shibani Kulkarni
Health Scientist

Stephanie Watson-Grant
Project Director, JSI

Ucheoma Nwaozuru
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Cohort B

Abbey Kocan
Deputy Director, Bay Area Global Health Alliance

Anne CC Lee
Levinger Family Professor of Pediatrics, Brown University

Catalina González Marqués
Physician _ Associate Director of Emergency Health Systems, Brigham and Women's Hospital_ Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Chibuzor Onyenuobi
Senior Program Specialist, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

Desiree LaBeaud
Professor, Associate Dean, Stanford

Dominique LaRochelle
Director, Gender Equality Strategy, Save the Children Canada

Elizabeth Doggett
Senior Technical Advisor, Gender, Jhpiego

Francelle Kwankam Toedtli
Technical Specialist, sexual and reproductive health and rights and maternal health, UNFPA

Juliana da Silva
Team Lead, Viral Suppression Team, CDC - Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis

Katy Ashe
Design Director, YLabs

Kelly Young
Associate Director Program, Planning & Evaluation, UCSF

Kelly Zongo
Senior Director, Programs, The END Fund

Kerry Thomson
Research Scientist, University of Washington, Department of Global Health, I-TECH

Mabel Carabali
Assistant Professor, McGill University

Maria Carrasco
Sr. Implementation Sciences Research Technical Advisor, USAID

Mary Kante
Founder and Principal, Eau Claire Consulting (ECC)

Megha Kumar
Senior Strategy Manager, Medtronic

Mehr Manzoor
Founder & CEO, BeyondParity

Nikki Tyler
Director of Partnerships, U.S. Department of State, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Petra Heitkamp
Community Manager, TBPPM Learning Network

Pooja Yerramilli
Health Specialist, World Bank

Robin Mohr
Senior Research Manager, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Robyn Iqbal
Global Health Strategist

Sara Baumann
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Shannon Prudhomme
Senior Technical Advisor, Partnerships - MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience Project, Corus International

Sun Cotter
Deputy Director, University of California Global Health Institute

Uche Ralph-Opara
Chief Health Officer, Project HOPE

Yashodhara Rana
Associate Director, Eleanor Crook Foundation

Yemelaknesh Wolde
Health Financing Advisor, Open Development

Zinat Begum
Senior Humanitarian Advisor, Jhpeigo