WomenLift Health has selected the emerging leaders below to participate in the third 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.

Allison Spensley
Doctoral Student, University of Alabama Birmingham

Bertha Serwa Ayi
Medical Director Sepsis Program
Essentia Health

Bhavya Gowda
Senior Director, Results for Development

Debora Freitas López
Executive Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Diana Vaca McGhie
Global Advocacy Portfolio Lead
American Heart Association

Erika Larson
Independent Consultant

Jacque Caglia
Director of Learning, Communications and U.S. Programs
Merck for Mothers

Jumana Qamruddin
Global Program Lead, Healthcare Delivery
The World Bank Group

Kaitlin Christenson
Senior Program Officer, Program Advocacy and Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kate O'Brien
Community Engagement Coordinator
We Are TB / National Tuberculosis Controllers Association

Kim Longfield
Founder and Principal
Databoom

Lanice Williams
Director of Advocacy, Communications, and Partnerships, Data2X

Margaret Prust
Director, Analytics and Implementation Research
Clinton Health Access Initiative

Marissa Leffler
Health Program Director
UBS Optimus Foundation

Mischka Garel
Director of Programs
Emory University Global Health Institute

Monique Mrazek
Senior Global Health Tech Industry Specialist
World Bank Group/International Finance Corporation

Nancy Puttkammer
Assistant Professor
International Training and Education Center for Health, University of Washington

Natalie Meyers
Chief Program Officer
ReSurge International

Olivia Velez
Chief Digital Health Officer
IntraHealth International

Onikepe Owolabi
Director of International Research, Guttmacher Institute

Rebecca Levine
Technical Director & Cluster Area Lead, Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health, Management Sciences for Health

Samantha Diamond
Senior Director, Global Health Financing
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

Samara Andrade
Senior Director
SightLife

Sana Syed
Associate Professor
University of Virginia

Sara Clements
CDC Assignee
Indian Health Service

Saroj Sedalia
Director, Strategic Learning & Impact
The Rockefeller Foundation

Savitha Subramanian
Senior Program Officer, Maternal, Newborn and Child health
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Susan Wang
Associate Chief of Science, Accelerated Disease Control Branch, Global Immunization Division
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Trina Haque
Global Practice Manager -- South Asia Region; Health, Nutrition and Population GP
The World Bank