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Désiré A. Boko is a primary care provider with more than three decades of healthcare experience, including extensive work in health system strengthening with U.S. government-funded projects. He has served as chief of party (COP) in fragile state settings in an environment of crisis and insecurity, including Mali and Haiti. He provides technical leadership and managerial oversight in the implementation of project strategy for such areas as health financing, health sector reform, human resources, and decentralization.

Julio Pacca is a psychologist and innovative leader with more than 20 years of experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights. He focuses on HIV and AIDS; family planning; maternal health; adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health; and health systems strengthening. Pacca has worked with donors such as the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United Nations, the World Bank, bi-lateral Scandinavian donors, and the William and Flora Hewlett, Goldman, and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations.

Etienne Fondjo is a medical entomologist specializing in malaria with 20 years of experience in project management and malaria control funded by the public sector and its partners. He has served as the national malaria coordinator and as the deputy national malaria coordinator in Cameroon’s National Malaria Control Program (NMCP). He has also consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO) in five countries, served as principal investigator for 11 projects in Cameroon, and was the Central Africa coordinator for the Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa (MARA) project in nine countries.

Dr. Denis Sinzinkayo is a medical doctor with a decade’s worth of experience working in both public and private hospitals as well as serving as a district medical officer and the deputy director of the National Malaria Control Program of the Ministry of Public Health in Burundi.Dr. Sinzinkayo currently serves as the Chief of Party (COP) on the Abt-led U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative Evolving Vector Control to Fight Malaria Project (PMI Evolve) in Burundi. He works with the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) to strengthen its capacity to conduct vector surveillance activities and provide assistance on government-led vector control activities. He also coordinates bi-monthly entomological surveys across nine sentinel sites in Burundi.

Adedayo Oduola is a public health entomologist with more than two decades of experience in Nigeria on malaria vector control programs in development institutions, research institutes, and academia. He has worked on malaria projects of national significance funded by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Bank, the European Union, and the private sector. As a senior lecturer at the University of Ilorin, his passion for ensuring a well-trained vector control workforce led to a WHO capacity strengthening grant that enabled him to train and mentor 23 entomologists from across the country.

Claire Jones has more than 14 years of experience in health financing. Her work includes sustainability planning, domestic resource mobilization, resource tracking, costing, efficiency analyses, public expenditure reviews, and strengthening of financial management systems. She has provided technical support to promote universal health coverage (UHC). Jones has experience facilitating the engagement of a wide range of stakeholders and building critical partnerships. She also has experience generating evidence to inform suitable health financing reforms and strategies with the goal of equitable access to quality health services.

Chanry Im has more than 10 years of experience directing monitoring and evaluation and technical assistance for national health programs in Cambodia, working with government stakeholders from the peripheral, sub-national, and national levels. Trained as an epidemiologist, he also has experience in health management information systems (HMIS). His technical support to the Cambodian national tuberculosis (TB) program transformed the management of TB patient’s health data from a paper-based to web-based system for real-time data collection. His current focus includes working with the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology, and Malaria Control, the University of Puthisastra, and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI).

Dr. Abdoulaye Bangoura is a trained veterinarian and a global public health professional with more than 12 years of experience working in the design, implementation, management, monitoring, and evaluation of global health programs. He has worked around the world, including Haiti, the United States, China and seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa.As Chief of Party of the PMI VectorLink Project in Malawi, Dr. Bangoura and his team work with the National Malaria Control Programs of Malawi to implement malaria vector control interventions including indoor residual spraying (IRS), entomological vector surveillance, and insecticide-treated nets, and provide technical support to other implementing partners in Malawi to reduce the burden of malaria.