Our People

Amy Boldosser-Boesch is Senior Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy & Engagement and Senior Director for Integrated Health Care at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a global non-profit organization that works with countries and communities to build strong, resilient, sustainable health systems. She leads MSH's programs and teams dedicated to improving women's, children's, and adolescents' health; person-centered primary health care; and universal health coverage. Amy oversees the work of the Secretariat for the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism of UHC2030, which advocates to ensure marginalized groups are not left behind in the push to achieve universal health coverage. In this role she was deeply engaged in supporting civil society participation in the 2019 High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. Amy has extensive experience in both global and domestic health policy advocacy. She was previously President and CEO of Family Care International, a global advocacy organization. Amy is an active member of several global advocacy initiatives, including the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality and Every Newborn Action Plan Advocacy and Accountability Working Group, and serves on the UNFPA Global Advisory Council and the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council. 

Carmen Ryan is a lawyer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (2012), with postgraduate studies in public policies (FLACSO). She completed her master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021 with a fellowship in the program of the International Center for Studies Political (CIEP) of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM) funded by the Global Campus network. In the last 15 years, she has worked as a lawyer in different human rights projects in civil society organizations, international organizations, and public offices. She currently coordinates the public advocacy strategies in Fundación Huésped.

David is Director of the Global Primary Health Care Program (Better Care) and Co-Director of the Centre for Health Systems Science. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney and works clinically as a GP in Sydney.

David joined the Institute in 2006 and leads the Better care program at the Institute. This program focusses on SDG 3 - especially SDGs 3.4 and 3.8. The goal is to overcome the challenges of delivering affordable, high-quality health services and programs to communities across the globe. It is underpinned by health systems science, a dynamic and emerging discipline that includes health services research, health policy and systems research and implementation science. 

David has published extensively in areas related to health systems research and leads several grants testing innovative strategies to improve access to high-quality primary health care with a particular focus on under-served populations. He was the 2015-2016 Australian Harkness Fellow in Healthcare policy, based at Harvard School of Public Health where he conducted a national study of the changes to health care delivery systems associated with President Obama's reforms. 

He has been a board member with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and sits on several government, non-government and research advisory committees. He was the elected co-chair of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases committee for hypertension control from 2012 to 2015. 

Eliana Monteforte is the Director of Special Projects at Global Health Council (GHC). In this role, she leads projects that engage non-US civil society organizations (CSOs), policymakers and other stakeholders in addressing key health equity issues in global health with a particular focus on Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Additionally, Eliana works closely with the President and CEO to expand GHC’s funding portfolio and identify new business development opportunities to further the goals and objectives of GHC’s 2022-2025 strategic plan.

Prior to joining GHC, Eliana worked at Management Sciences for Health (MSH) for over a decade where she provided management and technical assistance support to various Ministries of Health (MOH) and over 40 CSOs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Eliana’s areas of expertise include global health advocacy, strategic planning, resource mobilization and health finance. Eliana was formerly the Coordinator of the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) Secretariat and is thrilled to continue to engage in UHC advocacy as a CSEM Advisory Group member representing GHC. Eliana graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with an MPH in Health Policy and Management and a Certificate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Emma Feeny is Global Director of Impact & Engagement at The George Institute for Global Health, where she leads a programme of activities including advocacy, policy engagement and thought leadership to help increase the impact of the institute’s health and medical research. 

Emma is a Senior Visiting Fellow at United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), and co-chairs the NCD Lab on Women and Girls with the World Health Organization. She also co-chairs the NCD Alliance Supporters’ Group, and is a former co-chair of the Taskforce on Women and NCDs. 

Before joining The George Institute in 2017, Emma worked as a global policy and advocacy advisor at Oxfam, and held policy and communications roles at the University of Oxford, the World Food Programme and elsewhere. A former journalist, she has an MA in the Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Justin is co-chair of the Steering Committee of UHC2030, the international multi-stakeholder partnership for universal health coverage, and is a member of multiple WHO expert panels. At a national level, Justin is president of ACON (AIDS Council of New South Wales), Australia’s largest community organisation dedicated to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, as well as to the health of sexuality and gender diverse people more broadly. He is Distinguished Fellow and Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New South Wales, as well as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Justin's training is in the field of pure mathematics, and he currently works as an investment analyst. 

Katja Rohrer-Herold is a Public Health expert with extensive working experience in health system strengthening, national health planning and aid effectiveness.

Katja holds a post-graduate degree in Political Science and a MSc in Public Health. She is also a certified organizational development consultant. From 2010 to 2015 she has worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva and Khartoum and currently supports the Health Systems Governance and Financing Department in WHO/ HQ as a consultant. She is a co-editor of the Handbook on Social Participation for UHC.

Kurt Frieder is the President of Fundación Huésped, an Argentinean NGO with regional reach throughout Latin America since 1989. Fundación Huésped works on HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health advocating to build an equitable, healthy and sustainable society with full access to health services and human rights. 

Kurt co-chaired the Civil Society 20 (C20) Global Health Working Group (GHWG) in Italy 2020, was the international coordinator in 2019 in Japan, and coordinated the GHWG in Argentina 2018. Until 2022 he was a member of the UHC2030 Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) Advisory Group. Previously, he coordinated the Health Commission of the Social Sector Forum and was the General Secretary of the Argentinean AIDS Society. He was also a member of the CCM of the Global Fund during both projects granted to Argentina. 

In addition, he coordinated the CIAT/ITPC (International Treatment Preparedness Coalition of HIV/AIDS activists in Latin America); and served as a regional member of AIDS Accountability International. He was also the local administrative Chair of the Organizing Committee of the First International Aids Society IAS Conference on Science. Until 2018, he served as the President of the Argentine Network for International Cooperation, a national federation of over 160 CSOs working in the local development of the social sector. 

Originally born in Romania, he is fluent in Spanish, English, German and French. He received his MBA in Business Administration from the University of Belgrano and his Master in Public Health degree from the University of Buenos Aires (1996).

The Centre for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) is a Vietnamese NGO, well-known for its leading role in advocacy for marginalized populations’ access to health and fostering national networks of key populations and other community networks in Vietnam.

In 2015, Linh joined SCDI to develop the Children and Youth program, and has led various interventions and advocacy efforts on drug harm reduction and HIV prevention for young drug users, sexual and reproductive health and rights for young women and adolescent girls, building resilience, increasing access to health and education for disenfranchised children. She also provides supervision for Harm reduction and Addiction Treatment program and the Communication and Social Mobilization team.

Before SCDI, Linh sat in the core team laying the stepping stones for the first Global Fund supported project on HIV/AIDS led by civil society in Vietnam, facilitating capacity building of community-based organizations and key populations networks and their engagement in advocacy for enabling environment for civil society participation in the HIV response.

Dr. Margaret Lubaale is the current director of the Health NGOS Network (HENNET), working with Civil Society, Kenya Government and various stakeholders to improve coordination of CSOs for advocacy and policy influencing.  She is a seasoned program and technical specialist with over 26 years’ leading and directing program implementation in areas ranging from health and HIV, education, water, sanitation and hygiene, prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, and child protection.   She has previously served in senior positions with international organizations such as Pathfinder, Plan, Child Fund and Winrock.  Her passion is to apply her experience and skills for the benefit of children, adolescents, youth, and people living with HIV and key populations, amongst other vulnerable and marginalized groups.

Dr. Patricia Owira, Technical Advisor Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH), International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya (ICRHK) is a Medical Doctor and Public Health Researcher. She holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Nairobi and an MSc in Public Health for Development from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has vast experience in providing overall leadership in sexual reproductive health research and program development and management, formulation and implementation of policies and strategic plans, resource mobilization and partnerships development to ensure effective implementation and delivery of SRH projects and programs. She is an African Academy of Sciences International Research Management Fellow.