The Alliance Lift

The Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of policy-makers, researchers and practitioners shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, Daniela Rodriguez of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research speaks with Dr Shalom Ndoula, Country Director of the Expanded Programme on Immunization at Cameroon’s Ministry of Public Health. With more than 20 years of exper...

The Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this episode, Dr Kumanan Rasanathan, Executive Director of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, speaks with Dr Keith Cloete, Head of Health for the Western Cape Government in South Africa. Recorded following the recent Alliance Policy-maker Forum in Cape Town, t...

In this episode, Mr Jeffrey Knezovich, host of The Alliance Lift, speaks with Dr Katherine Ann Reyes, based at the University of the Philippines Manila. A physician by training, Dr Reyes works at the intersection of public health, policy and health systems, with a focus on practical policy choices that affect everyday life – from tobacco control and healthy consumption to immunization and stronger...

The Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this episode, Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed, host of the Alliance Lift, speaks with Professor Asha George, the South African Research Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change at the University of the Western Cape. A globally recognized qualitative researcher, Professor Geo...

The Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, Mr Jeffrey Knezovich, a Technical Officer at the Alliance, talks with Ms Racha Fadlallah, a Senior Scientific Officer at the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center at the American University of Beirut and co-founder of the SPARK Center for systematic reviews in health p...

In this episode of The Alliance Lift , Dr Rachidatou Compaoré – a public health physician and researcher from Burkina Faso whose work bridges health systems, policy, and reproductive health – speaks with Ms Idil Shekh Mohamed, Technical Officer at the Alliance. As a Research Fellow at the Institute of Research in Health Sciences in Ouagadougou, Dr Compaoré’s studies have helped inform Burkina Faso...

The Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the world. In this episode, Executive Director Dr Kumanan Rasanathan speaks with Dr John-Arne Røttingen, Chief Executive Officer of the Wellcome Trust, former Global Health Ambassador of Norway, and past Chair of the Alliance Board. Their conversation explores the ideas and experiences that...

The Alliance Lift is a series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, Ms Giulia Loffreda chats with Dr Archana Shrestha, a Nepali epidemiologist, researcher and educator whose work is reshaping how we think about prevention and implementation science in low- and middle-income countries. We asked Archana about the experiences that sh...

The Alliance Lift is the series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, we meet  Livia Dal Zennaro , now Senior Policy Officer at the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport – and formerly part of the Alliance Secretariat. We hear how she found her path into health policy and systems research and how that experience continues to...

The Alliance Lift is the series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, we meet Dr Eric Ssegujja, a leading public health researcher and educator based at Makerere University in Uganda. He has deep experience across adolescent and maternal health, health taxes, urban health and knowledge systems. In this interview, Eric reflects on...

The Alliance Lift is the series that spotlights the journeys of Alliance alumni shaping health systems around the globe. In this Q&A, we meet Dr Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, a Peruvian medical doctor, health scientist and Indigenous scholar from a Quechua community in Ancash. Her work focuses on transforming health systems through intercultural approaches rooted in Indigenous knowledge, climate res...