Moytrayee Guha

Moytrayee Guha is a global health practitioner, strategist, and health systems researcher dedicated to building resilient, sustainable, and people-centered health systems in developing countries. With over 15 years of experience, she specializes in international development, health systems strengthening (HSS), implementation science, health emergency preparedness and response (HEPR), infectious diseases, and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH). Her expertise spans technical and strategic leadership, systems thinking, capacity building, program management, and policy development. Currently, Moytrayee serves as a Senior Health Specialist/Consultant with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice and as Program Director of the Center for Health System Sustainability at Brown University. In these roles, she provides leadership, capacity building, and technical assistance to governments and regional/country teams on HEPR, health system resilience, service delivery, governance, multisectoral partnerships, and policy implementation.

Previously, Moytrayee was Director of Program Development and Strategy for the Mass General/Harvard Global Health Innovation Lab, where she led MNCH, global surgery, and quality improvement programs across 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. She has been instrumental in developing and implementing innovative, evidence-based HSS interventions funded by the Gates Foundation, WHO, World Bank, USAID, UK Aid/DFID, Rockefeller Foundation, and Wellcome Trust. Moytrayee has also held leadership, research, and technical assistance roles at the United Nations, Partners in Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard SPH, Columbia’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), and Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals. She holds an MPH from Columbia University, has completed leadership and management training at Harvard University and the London School of Economics, and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.