Moytrayee Guha is an accomplished global health practitioner and strategist and comparative health systems researcher, passionate about collaborating with change agents around the world to build resilient, equitable, and people-centered health systems to improve health outcomes of vulnerable communities. With over 14 years of experience, Moytrayee has demonstrated expertise in health systems strengthening, maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), infectious diseases, pandemic preparedness and response (PPR), as well as strategic leadership, capacity building, program design and implementation, and policy development. She holds an M.P.H. from Columbia University, completed global health leadership training at LSE, Johns Hopkins and Harvard University, and is currently pursuing her DrPH in Global Health Policy and Evaluation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH.
Moytrayee’s global health journey started with supporting HIV/AIDS and child health programs in Thailand and India, where she lived for 18 years. She has held several leadership, program management, and research positions at the United Nations, Partners in Health, CDC, Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), Columbia’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), and leading Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals. Between 2015-2021, Moytrayee served as the Director of Program Development and Strategy for the MGH/Harvard Global Health Innovation Lab, leading MNCH and global surgery programs across 24 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Her work has been instrumental in developing and implementing innovative evidence-based interventions funded by organizations like the WHO, Gates Foundation, World Bank, USAID, UK Aid/DFID, and Wellcome Trust.
Currently, Moytrayee is a Health Systems Consultant at the World Bank and Program Director of the Center for Health System Sustainability at Brown University SPH where she is leading global projects on PPR, immunization, health system resilience, and comparative health systems research.
