Before joining R4D, Ms. Mubangizi worked for the University of Cape Town coordinating research on the long-term effects of HIV medication on adolescents born with HIV. In addition, she is the CEO and founder of her own business that distributes fast-moving consumer goods in Dar-es-Salaam. She also served as a public health intern for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees where she supported coordination and monitoring of refugee health services in rural Northwestern Tanzania.

Ms. Mubangizi has a master’s degree in public health focusing on epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Cape Town, and a BSc in public health with a minor in maternal and child health from the University of South Florida.

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As an associate director at Result for Development’s (R4D) evaluation and adaptive learning (EAL) practice, Ms. Rosapep provides technical and strategic leadership to EAL’s flagship initiatives. She also leads processes to review and analyze evidence to inform priorities for action and facilitates collaboration with consortium partners, USAID representatives, government stakeholders, and local implementing partners. In addition, she supports the growth and strategy development for the practice.

In her career, Ms. Rosapep has helped government and non-government stakeholders identify ways to improve in-service training for health care workers, expand service availability and accessibility to people living with HIV, pinpoint weaknesses in TB treatment initiation protocols, help community-level drug shops relay health messaging more effectively to their customers. By using iterative and participatory evaluation approaches she helped to adapt a peer sexual-health education program and explore the implications of modifying staffing configurations for early education interventions.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Rosapep was a Senior Associate at Abt Associates where she served as the senior administrator on Abt’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) and was a Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Lead on the USAID-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector Plus (SHOPS Plus) and Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) projects.

Outside of work, Ms. Rosapep serves in the Washington, D.C. chapter of Back on My Feet, a nonprofit organization that combats homelessness through the power of fitness, community support, and essential employment and housing resources.

Ms. Rosapep holds an MA in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

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Dr. Djimeu is an associate director in evaluation and adaptive learning at Results for Development (R4D) where he leads innovative monitoring, evaluation, research and learning approaches to improve the performance of health, education, and nutrition systems. He leads the Rapid Feedback Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning (RF MERL) project in Mali and supports monitoring evaluation learning activities (MEL) for the HSS Accelerator, a global USAID-funded health system strengthening program. In addition, he collaborates with other programs and lines of work at R4D.

Dr. Djimeu’s career has focused on generating and adapting evidence to enhance performance of social development outcomes. Prior to R4D, Dr. Djimeu worked at GAIN as a senior technical evaluation specialist where he set up a system for conducting evaluations and led the evaluation of major nutrition programs. Prior to GAIN, he worked at 3ie where he designed and led seven research projects on HIV self-testing in Kenya and six impact evaluations. He has promoted evidence generation and their use in designing interventions to enhance effectiveness of programs across different sectors including nutrition, health, education, infrastructure, and agriculture. He has conducted capacity building activities to train young researchers, policymakers and stakeholders in evaluation methods and techniques and the use of evidence to inform policies.

Dr. Djimeu has published more than two dozen journal articles. His research spans multiple specialties, including impact evaluations, empirical methodologies, replication research, evidence review, cost effectiveness analysis, and macroeconomic analysis. He holds a PhD and master’s degree in economics from the University of Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand I in France and a BA in economics from University of Yaoundé II. He is native speaker of Ghomala and French and speaks fluent English.

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As a senior program officer at Results for Development (R4D) Ethiopia office, he provides technical leadership and program management to the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator project. He contributes to strategy, project management, and analytic activities to support the government of Ethiopia to sustainably finance their health systems and accelerate improvements in coverage, quality, and equity of rehabilitation services.

Throughout his career, Dr. Fitsume has focused on expanding and institutionalizing health care quality through systems thinking. As a senior health care quality advisor at Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, he championed systems thinking and knowledge management. He contributed to the design and development of Ethiopia’s Health Sector Transformation Plan and led the design and development of National Health Care Quality and Safety Strategy.

Dr. Fitsume holds an MD from Jimma University and a master’s in public health from Haromaya University. He is fellow at the International Society of Quality (ISQUa). He is native speaker of Amharic and Afaan Oromo and speaks fluent English.

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As a senior program officer at Results for Development (R4D), she supports the Momentum Routine Immunization Transformation Equity (M-RITE) project which aims to address entrenched obstacles to routine child immunization and effective COVID vaccine delivery in the DRC, Mozambique, and Kenya. She also supports the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) community of practice to facilitate cross-country knowledge exchange among countries to share best practices in strengthening primary health care.

Dr. Babalola’s career has focused on expanding access to quality primary health care services to underserved populations in West Africa, supporting NGOs, national, and sub-national health authorities to design and implement public health programs. In addition, she also helped develop curriculum and strengthen capacity for health care providers working on routine immunization, HIV and TB care in Nigeria. She coordinated a training needs assessment in that country for immunization service providers which helped uncover areas for improvement in capacity strengthening for health workers. This work resulted in a 2019 research publication (see Publication below).

Prior to joining R4D, Dr. Babalola was a technical consultant for the West Africa Health Organization in Burkina Faso and the Direct Consulting and Logistics/ Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center in Nigeria. In these roles, she oversaw a broad range of initiatives to improve access to public health services in West Africa. She also worked as a technical program officer at the Institute of Human Virology in Nigeria supporting efforts that resulted in improved quality of HIV care services and treatment for over 100,000 people living with HIV in that country.

Dr. Babalola holds a medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a master’s of science degree in global health policy and management from Brandeis University, and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where she was an Edward Mason Fellow in public policy. She speaks fluent English and Afemai, her native language.

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At R4D, Ms. Alphs provided technical support to the team in Tanzania and led work in Kenya for the Increasing Access to Life-Saving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Medicines. She also supported the design and successful implementation of the Tanzania pilot for the Transparency for Development Project.

Previously, Ms. Alphs worked with the Healthcare Research Team at the William Davidson Institute (WDI) managing a portfolio of projects related to improving access to essential medicines and health technologies in low-income countries. She provided technical, analytical and operational guidance on projects commissioned by various donors including the Gates Foundation, UNITAID, and USAID. Prior to her work with WDI, Ms. Alphs worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Tanzania where she managed the pediatric HIV program. There, she worked closely with the Ministry of Health to pilot innovative technologies to improve access to quality care and also to integrate new HIV/AIDS related commodities into the existing national supply chain system.

Ms. Alphs holds a BA and MPH from the University of Michigan. She currently lives in Tanzania and speaks basic Kiswahili.

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In his role as program director at Results for Development (R4D), Dr. Thio leads USAID’s health financing activity focusing on strengthening tuberculosis and maternal-child health through strategic purchasing in Indonesia.

Prior to joining R4D, Dr. Thio led UNICEF’s field office in Indonesia. In this role, he was responsible for ensuring sustainability and scale-up of UNICEF’s programs. He managed a district hospital and a primary health center and served as head of health services and health planning at two district health offices and headed managed care services at a provincial health office.  He coached and worked on capacity-building with provincial health office staff on quality assurance for HIV, STI and TB services. He also mentored provincial health staff.

Most recently, Dr. Thio served as a consultant to the World Bank on health security policy and disaster financing in Indonesia. He helped draft the Bank’s recent health security financing country report, communicating the importance of tracking government expenditures on health security. He is a member of the Association of Health Offices (ADINKES) in Indonesia.

Dr. Thio has traveled extensively to study the health systems of Australia, Israel, and the United States. He has an undergraduate degree in dentistry and a master’s in public policy and management from USC. He has initiated studies for a PhD in health economics.

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Ms. Jones is the health financing technical lead for the African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS) project in Namibia under the project’s local implementing partner, Synergos Institute Namibia. ACS supports the Government of the Republic of Namibia accelerate progress towards universal health coverage through sustainable financing of the country’s HIV/AIDS response.

At ACS, Ms. Jones manages the technical support provided to the Ministry of Health and Social Services. The project’s support focused on strengthening the country’s ability and capacity to effectively sustain the HIV/AIDS response and make progress towards a more sustainable health system for the attainment of universal health coverage. As part of this project, she led the development of a package of HIV/AIDS services for epidemic control, which is the first of its kind and aims to guide the provision of HIV/AIDS services for sustained epidemic control. Ms. Jones and the ACS team were awarded the 2020 Lange/Van Tongeren Prize for Young Investigators by the International AIDS Society (IAS) at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS2020:Virtual) for ACS’s support to the Namibian government in creating this package of HIV/AIDS services. The team also supported the government of Namibia to successfully implement a comprehensive resource tracking exercise by combining the SHA and NASA methodologies and generating estimates of both general health and HIV expenditures through one consolidated and inclusive exercise.

Previously, Ms. Jones has worked with various development partners (including PEPFAR/USAID, WHO, World Bank, Global Fund and UNAIDS) to support the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia on the country’s universal health coverage agenda to ensure that all Namibians have equitable access to quality health services.

Ms. Jones holds a B.BusSc degree from the University of Cape Town as well as a MCom degree from the University of Pretoria. She is fluent in English and German and has a basic understanding of French. She currently lives in Namibia, but has conducted consultancies in various African countries, including South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Eswatini and Tanzania.

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