Jumana Qamruddin

Jumana Qamruddin is the Global Program Lead for Healthcare Delivery at the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition, and Population Practice. In this role, Jumana leads the strategy development and execution of a comprehensive, global program on health systems and health service delivery. She manages a twenty-person team with wide range of expertise, who work on country and regional operations, knowledge products and public goods, learning and capacity building, and partnerships. 

Jumana’s experience in health systems strengthening, service delivery innovation, and program management has been built over twenty years, where she has been at the forefront of collaborating with countries and regions in designing and implementing cutting-edge strategies and programs. Just prior to her current position, Jumana was in the World Bank’s Africa region with working with clients a wide range of issues around health systems strengthening, public health preparedness and human capital. As part of the World Bank’s COVID-19 response efforts, Jumana co-led the development of a US$12 billion framework for COVID-19 vaccination—the largest World Bank health program to date.  Prior, Jumana was a Strategic Fellow in the WB CEO’s Office of Strategic Initiatives working on institution wide change management priorities. Jumana’s growing experience and interest is in changing how teams and institutions approach and address complex development challenges in the context of polycrisis. Jumana is an alumna of  WomenLift Health  program.