Meet the Devex Authors

Hamid Jafari

Hamid Jafari

Dr. Hamid Jafari is the director of global polio eradication operations and research at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. Before this appointment in March 2012, Jafari served as the project manager of WHO's National Polio Surveillance Project in India. He also served as director of the global immunization division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and as the medical officer for polio eradication in the regional office of WHO for Eastern Mediterranean.
Hanan Morsy

Hanan Morsy

Hanan Morsy is the director of the macroeconomic policy, forecasting, and research department at the African Development Bank Group.
Haneen Al-Rashid

Haneen Al-Rashid

Haneen Al-Rashid is a Ph.D. student studying Systems Engineering and the Co-Design of Trustworthy AI Systems at George Washington University. Previously, she worked with USAID Jordan on workforce development, women's economic empowerment, and private sector engagement programs. She also worked in Jordan's Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship.
Hanna Belayneh

Hanna Belayneh

Hanna Belayneh is a policy and advocacy officer at Results Canada, a grassroots advocacy organization working to create the political will to end extreme poverty.
Hanna Saarinen

Hanna Saarinen

Hanna Saarinen has more than 15 years’ experience in international development from both the private and public sectors. Five of those she spent in Southeast Asia dedicating herself to issues such as land rights and governance, with particular focus on strengthening local civil society. Currently, she is policy advisor at Oxfam EU, influencing the EU’s aid and development finance policies.
Hanna Woodburn

Hanna Woodburn

Hanna Woodburn is the deputy secretariat director for the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing, where she works on strategic communications and advocacy initiatives. Hanna holds a M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology and an Honor's Certificate in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University. Prior to earning her Master's Degree, Hanna worked in public policy.
Hannah Amora

Hannah Amora

Hannah Amora is a committed mother and advocate for congenital health disease. As principal of her own consultancy company, she was thrown into the world of CHD with the birth of her second son. That journey led her to becoming a champion advocate and establishing her organization, Let it ECHO, to raise awareness of CHD and develop programs in her country of the Philippines.
Hannah Girardeau

Hannah Girardeau

Hannah Girardeau is the program coordinator for the Energy Access Project. She is committed to promoting solutions to energy poverty in developing nations. As a master's student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, she focused her studies on international energy poverty and renewable energy. Hannah recently served as the program and development fellow for Empower Generation, a social enterprise supporting a women-led renewable energy distribution network in Nepal. For three years prior to Duke, she worked to encourage energy efficiency and renewable energy policies alongside the Midwest Energy team at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Hannah Johnson

Hannah Johnson

Hannah Johnson is program manager of global policy at the George W. Bush Institute. Her work focuses on supporting U.S. global health engagement and programs like the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and the Bush Institute’s involvement in the Go Further partnership to end cervical cancer and save lives.
Hannah Kazis-Taylor

Hannah Kazis-Taylor

Hannah Kazis-Taylor is a postgraduate fellow of the Parker Huang Fellowship at Yale University and a former Mercy Corps research intern. Her research focuses on armed nonstate actors in the Middle East and North Africa region and on development aid in conflict zones.