Robert is a public health policy specialist and leads the
Alliance’s work on noncommunicable diseases, climate change and the social
determinants of health. He has more than 15 years' experience working on health
systems at the global and country levels.
Before joining the Alliance, he worked in the WHO India Country
Office to help roll out national primary health care reforms and was previously
the Health Systems Coordinator for WHO in Sierra Leone at the end of the Ebola virus outbreak. He also worked as a Council of Foreign Relations Hitachi Fellow in
Tokyo, Japan, and on the Rockefeller Foundation’s Transforming Health Systems
initiative.
Robert holds master’s degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Hertie School of Governance. He also has a doctoral degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.