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 Bulstra’s research with the Health Systems Innovation Lab focusses on designing and testing healthcare delivery innovations to integrate and optimise healthcare for chronic diseases in areas with the largest healthcare demands. Caroline did her PhD at the Erasmus MC Department of Public Health in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she applied geospatial modelling approaches to (i) identify high-risk areas, (ii) unravel transmission dynamics, and (iii) identify population-level risk factors for…

Zia Shakir

Zia Shakir

Research 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,…