Dr. Constance Shumba has worked with several global health agencies in Africa and Asia over the last 19 years, leading the design and delivery of complex gender-responsive cross-sectoral programs in fragile settings. She has made distinctive contributions to health systems strengthening in evolving demographic, economic and disease contexts.

Constancia Mavodza is a passionate health equity advocate who hails from Harare, Zimbabwe. Consta is currently a Global Health Corps fellow at the Centre for Health and Gender Equity in Washington, D.C. where she is working as a sexual and reproductive health and right research analyst. Throughout her academic and professional trajectories, Consta strives to navigate the space where both gender and health equity intersect to achieve health for all.

H.E. Dr. Joyce Banda is the former president of Malawi. H.E. Dr. Bineta Diop is the African Union special envoy on women, peace, and security. Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet is the lead and executive director at MSD for Mothers. Pape Amadou Gaye is the president and CEO at IntraHealth. Dr. Edna Adan Ismail is the director and founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital and former foreign minister of Somaliland. Dr. Mariam Claeson is thedirector of the Global Financing Facility.

Jeffrey Drope is vice president of Economic and Health Policy Research at the American Cancer Society and professor in residence of global public health at Marquette University. Fastone Goma is director of the Centre for Primary Care Research in the School of Medicine and associate professor of Physiology & Cardiovascular Health at the University of Zambia. Ronald Labonté is distinguished research chair in Globalization and Health Equity and professor in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa. Raphael Lencucha is an assistant professor in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Qing Li is a scientist on the Economic and Health Policy Research team at the American Cancer Society. Peter Magati is a development economist with extensive research experience in the economics of tobacco farming and livelihoods. Gumilang Sahadewo is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia. Firman Witoelar is a fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Mara Hansen Staples is a partner and co-founder of Impact for Health, a boutique firm focused on scaling effective innovations in women’s health and primary care. Kariane St-Denis is an associate at Impact for Health. Ann Allen is a program officer in systems innovation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prashant Yadav is affiliate professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Ruth Faber is the CEO of EU-CORD. Shahin Ashraf, MBE, is the head of global advocacy at Islamic Relief Worldwide. Floris Faber is the director of EU advocacy at ACT Alliance EU. Silvia Sinibaldi is the humanitarian director of Caritas Europa.

Kirsten Gelsdorf is a professor of practice and director of global humanitarian policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Amanda Nguyen, Ph.D, is an assistant professor at Curry School of Education and Human Development. Lucy Bassett is an associate professor of public policy at Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Dani Poole is a postdoctoral fellow at Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College.

Kent Buse, Sarah Hawkes, Athena Pantazis, Anna Purdie, and Sonja Tanaka of Global Health 50/50; Siki Kikongo, Michelle Mbuthia, Sylvia Muyingo, and Moreen Nkonge of the the African Population and Health Research Center; and Kakoli Borkotoky, Abhishek Gautaum, Ketaki Nagaraju, and Sneha Sharma of the International Center for Research on Women.

San Bilal is senior executive and head of program for trade, investment, and finance at the European Centre for Development Policy Management. Manuel Bueno is a partner at Greensquare Ventures with a background in the development and implementation of impact and conservation funds and products. Nancy Lee is senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. Valeria Ramundo Orlando is a partner at Greensquare Ventures with extensive experience in designing and managing environmental, social, and governance financial products and facilities for private equity funds and multilateral development banks.

The Community Health Impact Coalition exists to make professionalized community health workers a norm worldwide. Members of CHIC and co-authors of this piece are: Carey Carpenter Westgate, deputy director at CHIC; Mathilde Hutchings, director of partnerships at PIVOT Works, Inc.; Nandini Choudhury, adviser at Possible Health; Helen Olsen, monitoring and evaluation senior manager at Medic, and Madeleine Ballard, executive director at CHIC.