Ayo Douglas

Co-Chair

Ayooluwa (Ayo) is a native of Nigeria. She is an MD/MPH candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Esias Bedingar

Co-Chair

Esias Bedingar is a native of Chad. He’s currently a second-year PhD student in Population Health Sciences at Harvard University. As a doctoral student, Esias is interested in identifying health system priorities in Chad, and designing community-based health insurances (CBHI) schemes, and measuring their impact on access and quality of care.

Hailu Dhufera

Co-Chair

Hailu is a Medical Doctor from Ethiopia, perusing a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) at Harvard T H Chan, school of public health. Hailu is passionate about health financing in low-middle-income countries with an interest in grass-root innovative insurance such as Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) and the role of digitization in advancing them.

Valencia Lambert

Panels

Valencia is a native of Tanzania. Currently, she is a first-year Master of Science in Global Health and Population student. She is passionate about women’s health; specifically examining how to improve health outcomes of women in rural sub-Saharan Africa through interventions that focus on health promotion. Valencia hopes to pursue a PhD in Population Health Sciences.