Dr. Bear has contributed to global market shaping and scale-up efforts since the early 2000s, beginning with GAVI’s PneumoADIP and the Hib Initiative, where she co-led the country support mechanism, providing technical assistance to Ministries of Health for vaccine rollout and impact evaluation. At USAID (2009–2015), she led the development of flagship U.S. Government health initiatives — including the Global Health Initiative, Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths Action Plan, and the Global Health Security Agenda. While based in Bangladesh and Mali, she oversaw catalytic investments in cold chain systems, digital health, health workforce, and governance. She collaborated closely with ministries to co-design frameworks for scaling high-impact interventions as part of national health sector strategies.

From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Bear led strategic and evaluative work that shaped major global health investments. She revised USAID’s maternal and child health investment frameworks to align with the SDGs, evaluated its flagship maternal and child health program, and designed a $1B successor strategy. She also led evaluation of the $3.5B Feed the Future nutrition portfolio, providing evidence that informed its Congressional reauthorization. Her advisory work includes digital health evaluations, such as a telecom-based health insurance product in Bangladesh that informed regional scale-up strategies. From 2019 to 2024, she led global portfolios managing integrated development programs across 25–45 countries, overseeing teams of 500–1,650 staff.

Dr. Bear holds degrees in social policy (BS, Northwestern) and public health (MPH, DrPH, Johns Hopkins). She has lived and worked for over a decade in Burkina Faso, Mali, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Palestine. She is fluent in French (professional) and English (native), and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Tracy serves as Associate Director of the Governance Action Hub, which supports a global community of change-makers to develop practical solutions to governance challenges. She works with local partners to design and test these solutions, connects them with the global governance and anti-corruption community, and helps turn good ideas into meaningful change.

Throughout her career across academia, government, business, and nonprofits, Tracy has led teams and built partnerships to strengthen public services and accountability. In South Africa, she developed a gender-responsive budgeting program that improved water and sanitation services for women and girls and influenced government policy. She was part the leadership team that established the national Asivikelane campaign, which improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for more than 5 million people living in informal settlements. She also led a health advocacy campaign that strengthened services at 45 public clinics serving over 650,000 people and helped restore critical health services for young people and women. Prior to that role, she served as Director of Policy and Research for Human Settlements in the Western Cape Government, where she established public sector partnerships with civil society, academia, and philanthropy.

Tracy is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics, an inaugural Leader in Residence for Policy Change at the Atlantic Institute, and an alumna of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. For several years she led the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) online program in public management and governance, teaching young professionals from 14 African countries.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in politics, philosophy, and economics and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Cape Town, and a postgraduate diploma in housing and urban finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Monte is a senior fellow at Results for Development (R4D), where he supports market development and mixed health systems initiatives aimed at increasing access to products and services in public and private sectors. He contributes to quality of technical inputs, strategy development, partner and donor liaison, thought leadership and programmatic design efforts.

Prior to R4D, Monte was chief of party for USAID Transform WASH at Population Services International (PSI) Ethiopia, where he led market development efforts that resulted in sales by business partners of more than 70,000 sanitation products and services to household customers across the country. He also served as country representative for PSI in Pakistan and Kenya and deputy regional representative in Central America, as HIV and marketing technical advisor in Cambodia, and as country director for Equal Access International in Cambodia. His background spans multiple health areas including HIV, family planning and reproductive health, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, malaria, TB and cervical cancer. In other experience, Monte worked as a media producer for Spark Media in Washington, DC, as vice president of international programs at Alight (formerly the American Refugee Committee), and as a senior program officer for the National Democratic Institute where he managed democratic development programs in Nepal, Haiti and West Africa.

Monte holds two master’s degrees, one in international economics and development from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a second in communications (film & video) from American University, both in Washington, DC. He also earned a BA in journalism and French from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He speaks English and is also proficient in French, Spanish and Nepali.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Dubik is FHM Engage and Frequent Assessment of Systems and Tools for Resilience (FASTR) program officer for Ghana. He supports the FHM Engage and FASTR activities in Ghana by performing administrative, project management, research, business development, and communication tasks, among others. At FHM Engage, he specifically supports activities relating to the Network of Practice (NoPs), Health Facility Regulatory Authority (HeFRA) and data systems and governance with the Ministry of Health. At FASTR, he is supporting activities leading to the strengthening of health systems and RAMNCAH-N outcomes through rapid cycle analytics and data use for decision-making.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr Dubik was a technical officer for JICA MNH-KAIZEN project where he led the project activities in the Northern region of Ghana. He also provided consultancy services to notable organizations such as the World Health Organization, International Water Resource Center-Ghana (IRC-Ghana), and Fujita Planning Co., Ltd. As a consultant, he led a team of technical experts to develop the National Patient Safety Strategy for Ghana.

Mr. Dubik is a published academic author and has written and published over 16 journal articles on health systems, maternal and child health, WASH, infection control and nutrition.

Mr. Dubik holds a Master of Philosophy degree in public health nutrition from the University for Development Studies, a Master of Public Health from the University of Ghana, a Bachelor of Science in public health from the University of Ghana and a Diploma in education from the University of Cape Coast. He speaks English, Twi and his native language Moar.

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Mr. Issabu is the monitoring, evaluation and adaptive learning manager at Results for Development (R4D), where he oversees in-country MEAL activities. He supports the design and implementation of various data collection processes including mapping and lean testing as well as routine monitoring of program evaluation activities. He provides in-country adaptive learning technical leadership and leads all desk review and analysis for various adaptive learning activities.

Throughout his career, Mr. Issabu has focused on building robust MEAL systems and processes for organizational and project results tracking and harvesting thus increasing organizational transparency and accountability.

Before joining R4D, Mr. Issabu accumulated experience and knowledge working with local and international NGOs such as Pathfinder International, Population Service International, International Youth Foundation, Restless Development, Oxfam, Plan International, Legal Services Facility and Foundation for Civil Society to mention are few. In his role as MEAL personnel, he supported and led the design and implementation of MEAL systems and processes for smooth data collection.

Mr. Issabu holds a Master of Science degree in natural resource assessment and management (MSc. NARAM) from the University of Dar es Salaam, a Bachelor of Arts in archaeology from the University of Dar es Salaam and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Open University of Tanzania (in progress). He is a native speaker of Kiswahili and speaks fluent English.

Publications

Paul, P., Kangalawe, R.Y.M. & Mboera, L.E.G. Land-use patterns and their implication on malaria transmission in Kilosa District, Tanzania. Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines 4, 6 (2018).

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Prior to R4D, Mr. Rogers was a logistics coordinator for Transaver LLC working primarily with its francophone client in Quebec to facilitate their logistical and transportation needs. He also volunteered with the Alliance for Citizen Engagement (ACE) where he assisted in guiding the research wing of the organization, published research briefs covering global health, the World Health Organization, the US role in international development, and the impact of climate change on health. He presented on climate change and health at ACE’s Climate Migration 2022 conference.

Mr. Rogers studied public administration, international relations and global health while working full-time in the logistics industry. He holds a graduate certificate in global health studies and a master’s in public administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He has a BA in history from St. John Fisher College. He is a native English speaker and speaks fluent French and conversational Spanish.

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At Results for Development (R4D), Mr. Chekole is a senior program officer providing technical and program management support to health financing activities in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and Nigeria. Mr. Chekole contributes to strategy, project management, and analytic activities to finance health systems and accelerate improvements in coverage, quality and equity of health services.

Mr. Chekole has managed projects from inception to delivery, including budgeting, planning, surveys and evaluation. He has served in the national technical committee for health and WASH programs in Ethiopia. He led and developed Ethiopia’s 10-year WASH master plan and 5-year WASH strategy and strategic action plan and guidelines.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr. Chekole was a team leader and senior public health advisor for the One WASH National Program (OWNP-CWA) where he worked with national ministries (Water, Health, Education and Finance), local and international non-governmental organizations, consulting firms and donors. He managed and directed WASH and other public health projects and programs funded by donors and international organizations including the World Bank, UNICEF, African Development Bank, DFID, Water Aid Ethiopia and John Snow Inc. He has also served as national health and WASH technical committee member and in a think tank for the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia. He is active in Ethiopian public health and Red Cross society associations.

Mr. Chekole holds master’s degree in public health from Gondar University and a BSc degree in environmental health from Haramaya University. He is a native speaker of Amharic and speaks English.

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As a senior program officer at Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Pastor provides technical and program management support across R4D’s Health and Evaluation and Adaptive Learning (EAL) practices. She leads key technical and project management activities, including for the Financing Accelerator Network for NCDs (FAN), where she collaborates with local partners to enhance access to high-quality, people-centered noncommunicable disease (NCD) services. She also supports the Federal-Level Technical Assistance for Primary Health Care (PHC) Financing project, where she contributes to monitoring, learning and evaluation efforts to consolidate gains and results to support federal agencies to institutionalize and strengthen established systems, processes and tools for implementing PHC reform. Her work focuses on strengthening core health financing functions such as resource mobilization, pooling, and purchasing, while also integrating service delivery and governance dimensions. Her expertise spans qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), health financing, nutrition financing, collaborative learning and health systems strengthening.

Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Pastor was a program associate at International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), where she supported post-Ebola recovery efforts to help countries rebuild economic and social systems. She also contributed to a project with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), identifying priority behaviors and solution pathways for interventions in energy, education and WASH. Before IBTCI, she conducted research on commercial complementary foods in food-insecure regions of Latin America for her master’s thesis.

Ms. Pastor holds a master’s degree in global health from ISGlobal–University of Barcelona and a bachelor of science in kinesiology with a concentration in public health and a minor in anthropology from the College of William & Mary. She is a native speaker of English and Spanish and speaks conversational French and Italian.

Publications

• Building Pathways to Sustainable Financing for NCDs in Sub-Saharan Africa | Financing Accelerator Network for NCDs
• The Power of Collaborative Learning to Advance NCD Financing | Financing Accelerator Network for NCDs
• Transforming NCD Financing: How System-Level Approaches Can Drive Change in Countries | Financing Accelerator Network for NCDs
• Evaluation: Second Performance Evaluation (PE2) of USAID Ebola Pillar II Activities

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Ms. Tsegaye has worked as finance and procurement officer for the Addis Ababa City Roads Authority and an administrative assistant for Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia.

Ms. Tsegaye graduated with BA in management from Hawassa University and has a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Unity University.

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