We owe our strength to the quality of our technical specialists. They combine extensive consulting and applied research experience with expertise in health economics, public health, HIV and AIDS, health financing, maternal health, and skills in evaluation, policy and strategy formulation and aid management.

Our specialists have extensive experience of working with aid agencies, government ministries and NGOs in countries across Asia, Latin America, East and Central Europe and Africa. They also work on consulting projects for HLSP and for the Department for International Development (DFID) Health Resource Centre, which is managed by HLSP.

Ken Grant is the Director of the HSLP Institute. Ken is a public health doctor with extensive experience in health sector reform, sector-wide approaches, country sector strategies, health services management and planning, organisational and institutional development. He was one of the founders of HLSP and from 1994 to 2002 was the Director of the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre.

Adrienne Chattoe-Brown is HLSP’s Lead Specialist in Health Systems and Service Delivery. She has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Central Asia, the South Atlantic, and has extensive experience in China. In the course of her career with DFID, ODI and then HLSP, she has collaborated with a diverse range of organisations including UNFPA, the World Bank, and several European bilaterals. Her particular interests are integrating vertical programmes into sector wide approaches, facilitating the contribution of the for-profit and not-for-profit non-governmental sector, reproductive health commodity security and donor coordination.

Emma Denton is a health economist with experience in the UK NHS and in Africa, India, Sri Lanka and across the Balkans. She specialises in financial analysis, national health accounts, public expenditure reviews, and evaluation of programmes and technologies. She also has extensive experience of working with Global Health Partnerships, including GAVI and Stop TB. Emma is the Head of Learning and Development within the HLSP Institute and Head of Europe for HLSP.

Clare Dickinson is an HIV/AIDS specialist with a particular interest in global policy and aid architecture development and political responses to national epidemics. Clare is the author of several HLSP Institute publications. Recent work includes reviews of National AIDS Commissions, global coordination of AIDS responses, palliative care for HIV and AIDS, SRH/HIV integration and the Global Fund, and the role of power and process in policy making. Clare has worked in Kenya, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

Nel Druce is a policy analyst with particular expertise in access to medicines, global health partnerships, health policy and systems development, health communication strategies, consumer awareness and demand side approaches, and capacity building strategies (NGOs and networks). Recent experience includes reviews of global health partnerships, public-private partnerships, intellectual property rights and access to medicines, as well as deputy directorship of the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre.

Javier Martínez is a public health consultant and HLSP's Lead Specialist in Aid Effectiveness. His experience includes sector planning and reforms, human resource development, and approaches to improve the effectiveness of aid such as SWAps, programme support and harmonisation and alignment at country level. He joined HLSP in 1998, and has held the posts of Regional Manager and Director for the Latin America and Caribbean region. Javier has also been a senior lecturer in health systems development at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Jackie Mundy is HLSP's Lead Specialist for HIV and AIDS. She is an international HIV and AIDS consultant with considerable experience in reproductive and sexual health; health systems, organisation and management issues, capacity building, and donor coordination. She has collaborated with a range of bilateral and multilateral organisations, including DFID, the World Bank and WHO, and has worked at national and district level in the public sector and with a range of NGOs in Kenya.

Mark Pearson is HLSP's Lead Specialist in Health Economics and Financing. He has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. Mark spent over 10 years as an Economist with DFID, during which he spent 3 years in Health and Population Division, 3 years as Senior Economist in the Ministry of Health, Uganda and 3 years as a Planner in Botswana. Mark's most recent work has focused on public expenditure reviews, sector strategy development, financing issues around the global health partnerships and aid instruments.

Catharine Taylor is HLSP’s Lead Specialist for Maternal and Neonatal Health. She has worked in several Asian and African countries in the area of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Catharine specializes in the design and implementation of human resource development approaches and health facility strengthening. Previous work includes the design and implementation of the technical approaches for the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project between 1997-1999 and support for the development of the SCUS Vietnam maternal health programme in 1999-2002. She has also worked extensively with Civil Society Organizations, building institutional capacity to integrate SRH into programming, including youth programming and demand creation activities for maternal health services.

Catriona Waddington is a health economist with experience of sector programmes, global health partnerships, harmonisation and alignment at sector level, project design and implementation. She is currently writing a series of Technical Briefs on health systems issues for WHO, and does technical work related to GAVI for DFID. From 2005-7 she was an adviser to the Minister of Health in Ethiopia on donor harmonisation issues. She has co-written recent technical papers on fragile states and federalism. She has managed projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia and Namibia, and worked in Malawi to support the Central Medical Stores. Her PhD was based on her work as a health economist with the Ministry of Health in Ghana.

Veronica Walford is a health economist with extensive experience on diverse aspects of health policy and planning, public sector management and reform, programme design and evaluation. Veronica headed the HLSP Institute (and its predecessor, IHSD) for five years until 2006. Previous work includes four years with the Uganda Ministry of Health as senior economic adviser, and consultancy in the UK and internationally. She has worked on sector-wide approaches, policy towards global health partnerships, with the GAVI Alliance on design of their second phase of support to countries.