Dr Rifat Atun

Professor Rifat Atun, MBBS, MBA, DIC, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPH

Director
Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Professor Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair for the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program. In 2006-13, Professor Atun was Professor of International Health Management and Head of the Health Management Group at Imperial College London. In 2008-12 he served as a member of the Executive Management Team of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as the Director of Strategy, Performance…

Che L Reddy

Che L. Reddy, MBChB, MPH

Associate Director, Innovation and Translation
Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr Reddy is a physician, Associate Director at the Health Systems Innovation Lab, and Research Associate within the Global Health Systems Cluster at Harvard University. Previously, he was a Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery and a postdoctoral Paul Farmer researcher in the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. Within the Lab, Dr Reddy is responsible for the…

Zach Ward

Zach Ward, MPH, PhD

Associate Director, Research
Research Scientist, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard University

Dr Ward is the Associate Director of Research and is a decision scientist with research interests in computational science and global health. His research has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Oncology, and Health Affairs. He is also the author of Amua, an open source modeling framework and probabilistic programming language. Zach is a Research Scientist at the Center for Health Decision…

Gabriela Borin

Gabriela Borin, PT, MSc, MPH, PhD

Senior Researcher
Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr Gabriela Borin is a Physical Therapist from Brazil. She received her undergraduate and Master of Science degrees from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2021 with a Masters in Public Health. She then did her PhD at University of Massachusetts, School of Public Health & Health Science, Amherst, USA, with a concentration in Kinesiology. Gabriela has over…

Caroline Bulstra, DVM, MHSc, PhD

Research Fellow
Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Caroline Bulstra’s research at the Health Systems Innovation Lab focuses on optimizing healthcare delivery for chronic diseases. She earned her PhD at Erasmus MC, applying geospatial modeling to optimise prevention and control strategies for HIV, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases. Caroline leads the “Global Health Systems and Planetary Health” group at the Heidelberg Institute for Global Health and has consulted for UN organizations, including the World Bank, UNAIDS and…

Kwabena Lartey

Kwabena F. Lartey, MBChB, MPH

Former Research Associate and Teaching Fellow
Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr Lartey graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2022 with a Master’s in Global Public Health and as a 2020 Harvard Presidential Scholar. He also holds another Master’s in Public Health Promotion and Education from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He has over 5 years of experience in innovative youth advocacy and  health promotion. He is the Founder/Executive director of Books for…

Zia Shakir

Zia Shakir

Senior Associate
Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Zia is an avid global health advocate, reformer, and strategic thinker with extensive experience in strategy and management consulting, change, and technology. Over the course of his career, he has worked with global organizations and managed several transformational initiatives. His focus in global health is on health systems reforms, evidence-based decision-making, universal health coverage (UHC), health economics, and health finance within LMICs, G20 nations, and humanitarian settings. Zia holds an…

Bukhtawar Azhar, BDS, MPH

Senior Associate, Innovation and Strategy
Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Bukhtawar Azhar, a dentist trained in Pakistan, completed her Master’s in Public Health at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2023. Prior to her master’s, she was the founder and program manager for the Program of Safe Dentistry, where she worked on improving infection prevention control policies and practices in Pakistan. She also dedicated her efforts to improving dental practice management in the region. During her master’s,…

Tan Yijia Bryan

Tan Yijia Bryan MBBS, MRCS, MMed(Ortho), DWD(CAW), FRCS(Ortho)

Dr Bryan Tan is currently a Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery, National Healthcare Group. He has experience practicing both locally and overseas having done several fellowships internationally including an attachment at the prestigious Geriatric Fracture Centre at the University of Rochester, New York, the pioneering centre for Orthogeriatric fracture care and an AO Trauma fellowship at Region’s Hospital, an internationally renowned level 1 trauma centre in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has…

Muhammed Ali, MBBS, MBA, DRCOG, DCH, MRCGP

Dr Muhammed Ali is the managing director of MSD Norge and visiting scientist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He teaches  on the Innovations in Global Health Systems program exploring the key facets that drive adoption and diffusion in healthcare. He is a General Practitioner (and partner in a local practice) at the NHS, UK, and focuses on vulnerable at need groups, integrated care and older adult care.