Meet the Devex Authors

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Adam Smith represents the 9th Congressional District of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Adam Taylor

Adam Taylor

Adam Taylor is the executive director of Global to Local and has been with the organization since its inception in 2010. G2L, based in SeaTac/Tukwila, Washington, aims to bring home global health strategies that have worked overseas so as to address health disparities in our own communities.
Adam  Wolf

Adam Wolf

Adam Wolf is the founder and CEO at Arable Labs, Inc., a double bottom line company focused on wide global impact by providing ground truth measurements, analytics, and accurate predictions that agricultural businesses need to make decisions and assess risk, from the base of the pyramid to the largest corporations. Prior to starting Arable Labs, Adam was a researcher and professor at Princeton University, received his B.S. and M.S. from University of California Davis in international agriculture and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Adeel Ishtiaq

Adeel Ishtiaq

Adeel Ishtiaq is a program Director at Results for Development (R4D) and serves on FAN’s Network Management team. Ishtiaq is an expert in health financing reform to expand Universal Health Coverage and design sustainable financing for priority health areas. His work spans noncommunicable diseases, rehabilitation services, safe blood transfusions, and the integration of mental health and psychosocial services in primary health care.
Adelheid Onyango

Adelheid Onyango

Adelheid Onyango is the director of the universal health coverage/ healthier populations cluster at the World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa. She leads AFRO’s work with countries in addressing determinants of health through multisectoral action to promote well-being and health, reduce risk factors, and create healthy settings. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education from Kenyatta University in Nairobi and a master’s and doctorate in Nutrition from McGill University in Canada. Her career spans academia, research, and public health policy and programming.
Adie Tomer

Adie Tomer

Adie Tomer is a fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program and directs the Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative.
Adil Ababou

Adil Ababou

Adil Ababou is a senior program officer at the Gates Foundation, focused on development policy and finance.
Adnan Hyder

Adnan Hyder

Professor Adnan Hyder is director of the health systems program and associate chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and board member of Health Systems Global. He has worked on key health systems issues for over 20 years in low- and middle-income countries, advised numerous international organizations and published over 250 scientific papers.
Adnan Kifayat

Adnan Kifayat

Adnan Kifayat is founder of Blueprint Strategies, LLC, and most recently served as the global lead for HIV therapeutic area for Gilead Sciences government affairs. He is an adviser to the Center on Economic and Financial Power of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He served twice on the National Security Council staff and as alternate executive director to the African Development Bank under U.S. President George W. Bush. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ado Muhammad

Ado Muhammad

Dr. Ado Jimada Gana Muhammad was appointed executive director and CEO of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in 2011. Prior to his appointment, he served as a special assistant in the Abuja state house. He has a distinguished medical career with a wealth of experience spanning almost two decades in the health and public service sectors. He is a graduate of the School of Medicine, University of Ilorin Nigeria, and also holds a master's degree in public health from University of Wales, United Kingdom.