Lucy Gilson holds a joint appointment at the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town and the Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research broadly focusses on how to strengthen health systems to offer better public value, with particular concern for health equity. She also has interests in understanding health system actors’ decision-making, and how trust and power relations shape health system dynamics and complexity. She is a board member of Health Systems Global, and co-research director of RESYST — the Resilience and Responsive Health Systems research consortium — which conducted the research underlying this piece.

Lucy Holmes is the senior director of Blue Finance at WWF US. Lucy leads a team that focuses on influencing and engaging financial markets to redirect capital into sustainable and restorative development pathways as well as ideating innovative financial mechanisms that support WWF’s ocean conservation goals in priority seascapes.

Lucy Lake is CEO at CAMFED and has three decades of experience working on girls’ education and women’s leadership in Africa. Lake is a founding member and former co-chair of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, and a member of the High-Level Steering Committee of the Global Education Commission’s Workforce Initiative. She was awarded the 2020 Yidan Prize for Education Development and is a member of the Yidan Council of Luminaries.

Lucy Mabada is a midwife and nurse and holds an advanced diploma in midwifery. Lucy has experience training trainers of the Helping Mothers Survive program in Uganda and has provided capacity-building support through UNFPA to midwives in Bangladesh. She also worked for Jhpiego for several years as a midwifery adviser where she trained midwives and other health care providers. After working for Jhpiego, Lucy joined the Tanzania Midwives Association in 2017 as a project manager.

Lucy Martinez Sullivan is the executive vice president at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, which together with its parent organization, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, works with civil society organizations across public health issues and political systems to advance policies that save lives.

Lucy Setian is responsible for the strategy and implementation of digital and artificial intelligence programs at the Novartis Foundation. Setian is currently working on fostering multiorganizational and governmental dialogue and implementing initiatives based on best practices in digital health care and delivery in low- and middle- income countries.

Lucy Spencer is a freelance writer whose focus areas include technology, international development, and politics. You can read more of her work here: https://naturally-inquisitive.com/

Lucy Martinez Sullivan serves as executive director of 1,000 Days, a non-profit organization that advocates for improved nutrition for women and children in the United States and around the world.

Lucy Xi Liu is a consultant at Gallup. Inc, California. She is an alumna of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore.

Dr. Luis Tam is the global technical lead for maternal, newborn and child health at Management Sciences for Health, a global health NGO. With 32 years of global public health practice, he regards childhood TB as one of the most important technical topics yet to be addressed in the implementation of the global maternal, newborn, and child agenda.