Dr. Claeson, a globally recognized expert in maternal and child health, is former director of the Global Financing Facility. Ms. Kainyah is a seasoned multinational executive with a legal background and her own firm, Kina Advisory, which provides advice critical to sustainable development in Africa to governments and companies. Mr. Loum, former prime minister of Senegal (1998–2000), is a dedicated public servant who brings a deep understanding of the needs of government change agents, including political, technical and implementation challenges. Ms. Pace is the president and executive director of the Global Health Council, and a tireless advocate for global health programs that effectively engage and meet the needs of their communities.

Gina Lagomarsino, president and CEO of R4D, said: “Earlier this year, we adopted a new strategy, which reflects a changing global development landscape and will serve as a guide for how we design our programs and how we build organizational capabilities in the coming years. I’m thrilled to welcome our newest board members at this pivotal time. Their counsel will be critical as we work to implement our strategy and manage continued uncertainty, the global recovery from COVID-19 and the global movement toward more just and equitable societies.”

R4D continues to support change agents — government officials, civil society leaders and private sector innovators — in low- and middle-income countries as they build strong systems to achieve large-scale, lasting improvements in health, education and nutrition. R4D’s strategy, adopted in May 2020, recognizes and responds to the current situation in the world, including the COVID-19 pandemic (which has created interrelated catastrophes in health, education and nutrition) and the need to dismantle structural racism in our field. The new strategy emphasizes approaches that support country-level systems change and build strong regional ecosystems that shift the locus of technical support to country and regional institutions and experts.

David de Ferranti, R4D board chair and senior advisor, added: “I’m excited to welcome Mariam, Rosalind, Lamine and Loyce to R4D’s board of directors. This impressive group brings significant experience and expertise working as public servants and leaders in the fields of development, health, business and finance.”

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Dr. Mariam Claeson

Mariam Claeson, M.D., M.P.H., is the former director of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Every Woman Every Child at the World Bank. Prior to the GFF, she served as director for the Maternal Newborn and Child Health team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She also worked at the World Bank from 1998–2012, where she worked as the program coordinator for the multisectoral response to AIDS in the South Asia Region as well as task team leader for HIV operations in India and Afghanistan, among other roles.

She said: “I am excited to join the R4D family as Board member because its mission, to work with change-agents in countries to create self-sustaining systems that support healthy, well-nourished and educated people, is more urgent and relevant than ever and central to the development agenda of the 2020s. I think that R4D is well-positioned to contribute and make a difference to our collective response to global inequities.”

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Ms. Rosalind Kainyah

Rosalind Kainyah, L.L.M., is an environmental lawyer and founder and managing director of Kina Advisory. In this role, she works with companies to ensure they have positive socioeconomic impacts on the countries in which they operate, while realizing optimal financial value. She is a trusted advisor to boards and senior executives of global companies on responsible business investment and partnerships in emerging markets. Ms. Kainyah has almost 30 years of combined international, senior management, executive and board level experience.

“It is a privilege to be joining the board of Results for Development, and I look forward to using my passion and experience to support the great work of Gina and the rest of the R4D team to address global inequalities in health, education and nutrition. These inequalities have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and there is an urgent need for localised solutions to these challenges. By working with local agents to drive change, Results for Development is leading the way in creating long-term, sustainable improvements across the three sectors.”

Learn more about Ms. Kainyah.

Mr. Mamadou Lamine Loum

Mamadou Lamine Loum served as Prime Minister of Senegal from 1998–2000. He began his government career in Senegal as Inspector of the Treasury, which led to the post of General Treasurer and then Director General of the Treasury. He later became Deputy Minister in charge of the budget then Minister of the Economy, Finance and Planning. More recently he has worked as an independent consultant in Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Togo, Algeria, Ghana and Guinea for international organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, OIF, IDB, UNDP, African Union, UEMOA and BOAD.

He said: “I am fully committed to supporting this relatively young, but well-known organization’s efforts to support change agents to improve health, education and nutrition outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. I have focused on these important issues from many angles during my long career, and I hope to contribute to R4D’s further success.”

Learn more about Mr. Loum.

Ms. Loyce Pace

Loyce Pace, M.P.H., is the president and executive director of the Global Health Council (GHC), a leading membership organization which supports and connects global health advocates, implementers, and stakeholders worldwide. Ms. Pace is a leader who has worked in more than 15 countries delivering health programs and mobilizing advocates. She has served as GHC president and executive director since December 2016. She previously held leadership positions in global policy and strategic partnerships at LIVESTRONG Foundation and American Cancer Society.

She said: “It’s a privilege to join the board of R4D at a time when people in our sector and around the world are not only acknowledging the importance of strong health systems but also building those with underserved communities at the table. I am thrilled to support the organization and its partners in how they prioritize local leadership and civil society engagement across health and development programs, so we all emerge even stronger.”

Learn more about Ms. Pace.

To see R4D’s full list of board members, click here.

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About Results for Development
Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results for development, too. For more information, visit our website at: www.r4d.org

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Ms. O’Hanlon is assisting the World Bank Global Finance Facility as private sector advisor to integrate private sector themes in the Investment Case and incorporate strategies to involve the private sector in the Country Platform. She has helped multiple countries (Bangladesh, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria) integrate private sector activities into GFF Investment Case, Country Platform and assisting Ivory Coast, Myanmar, and Niger implement private sector engagement projects.

She collaborated with the World Health Organization’s Health System’s Governance and Policy Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing to create awareness and build evidence on the importance of engaging the private health sector to achieve important health goals such as universal health coverage (UHC) and address COVID-19. She also developed policy briefs, guidance notes and instructional videos focused on private sector role to support low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) health ministries tackle COVID-19 and roll out the COVID-19 vaccine.

Over the course of her career, Ms. O’Hanlon has led and participated in over 26 private sector assessments in Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Central Asia, and South Asia. She co-developed a methodology to carry out private sector assessments and developed global knowledge and learning products such as Public-Private Dialogue Note and MM4H Executive Training Course. She also co-authored Managing Markets for Health.

In the last 18 years, she has worked with several African health ministries to conduct private health sector assessments, analyze key health markets for private sector opportunities, formulate private sector policies, and establish health PPP Units. She has also assisted several healthcare federations in Africa to become viable membership organizations and strengthen their technical capacity to represent the private sector voice in policy design and implementation.  She has trained health ministry officials from over 15 countries and development partner public health staff in the managing health markets approach.

Ms. O’Hanlon is a founding member of the World Health Organization’s Advisory Group on the Governance of the Private Sector for Universal Health Coverage.

Ms. O’Hanlon has an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University. A native English speaker, she is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French.

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More recently he has worked as an independent consultant in Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Togo, Algeria, Ghana and Guinea for international organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, OIF, IDB, UNDP, African Union, UEMOA and BOAD. He has consulted on a range of topics, including development economics, governance, public finances, banking and insurance, natural resource management, agricultural development, and mining and extractive industries.

He has worked in Senegal and abroad as an independent director of a variety of companies, as well as private foundations involved in philanthropy and economic and social research. In addition, he has officiated in international arbitration between states and private companies under national or foreign law. As an international volunteer from 2004 to 2015, he served as a representative of Francophone Borrowing Countries under IDA, a subsidiary of the World Bank. Mr. Loum was also a moderator of the Assises Nationales du Sénégal – Senegal’s National Conference (2008-2010) and vice president of the National Commission for Institutional Reforms (2013-2014).

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As an office operations and logistics manager at Results for Development, Ms. Abisse leads facilities management, safety, risk management and travel program management, and ensures that all staff and interns are trained to be administratively self-serving. She also provides support to R4D’s international offices and is a backstop support to the procurement and contracts function.

Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Abisse managed daily operations, procurement, safety, risk management and travel programs at the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in DC. She has experience opening country offices in Cameroon and the Central African Republic for Plan International, and previously worked for a Search for Common Ground and the International Rescue Committee.

She is also an entrepreneur and has a side business as a seamstress, where she designs and makes outfits and jewelry primarily using fabrics and materials from Africa.

Ms. Abisse holds an MS in management from University of Maryland University College and a BBA from the Southern New Hampshire University. She speaks fluent English and French.

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Keith has accumulated extensive MEL knowledge and experience including managing large-scale surveys, designing quantitative and qualitative evaluations, and adaptive learning approaches for various funders and programs. In previous roles, Keith led the design and operations of M&E systems and teams for a multi-country USAID-funded malaria prevention project in West and East Africa and supported the administration of two impact evaluations for the World Bank Group in Burkina Faso. He has supported the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) as the management and operations lead as part of the JLN network coordination team and acted as the senior evaluation and learning technical lead for the African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS). Most recently at Results for Development (R4D), Keith was the Adaptive Learning director for the first year of Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage, a five-year global market systems development project focusing on improving the participation and engagement of the private sector to improve health outcomes. Keith has specific country experience in Burkina Faso, Benin, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

Keith has recently taken on the role of impact advisor for the non-profit organization SameSame Collective which supports the mental health and resilience of LGBTQI+ youth throughout the Global South.

Keith holds a BS in chemical biomolecular engineering and materials science engineering from University of Pennsylvania and an MA in development economics and program evaluation from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. A native English speaker, Keith is fluent in French and conversant in Bambara. He currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa and has previously lived and worked in Europe, Central Africa and West Africa.

Mr. Mangam is currently supporting the RF MERL Mali and DDI EDU projects as well as recently leading the direct child evaluation in September for the Djibouti Early Childhood Education project.

Additional Resources
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effectiveness of mHealth for mobilizing households for indoor residual spraying to prevent malaria: a case
study in Mali. Global Health: Science and Practice Vol. 4, No. 2. pp. 222-237. (2016)

Kiendrébéogo JA, Thoumi A, Mangam K, et al. Reinforcing locally led solutions for universal health coverage:
a logic model with applications in Benin, Namibia and Uganda. BMJ Global Health 2021;6:e004273.

Donner, A., Belemvire, A., Johns, B., et al. Equal opportunity, equal work: increasing women’s participation in
the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Project, Global Health: Science and Practice Vo. 5, No. 4. pp. 603-616. (2017)

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