Jite Phido is a senior program manager on the scaling innovations team at Results for Development (R4D), where she manages the equity and inclusion, and systems innovation thematic areas at R4D’s International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA) secretariat. She additionally manages IDIA’s global innovation advisors program, a network of technical experts, thought-leaders, entrepreneurs and system disruptors from low- and middle-income countries who share IDIA’s priorities and objectives, and use their expertise and experience to improve IDIA’s work.

Throughout her career, Jite has focused on participatory approaches to development that leverage community participation and inclusion. She has designed media interventions that have reached over 25 million Nigerians across the country in six languages. Her multimedia policy research on the role of community health workers in driving equitable health access for the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale project won an award from the Development Research and Projects Center in Nigeria. As a bridge fellow with the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, Jite was seconded as the technical assistant to the Women Affairs Thematic Working Group, supporting the federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development’s work mainstreaming gender equity and social inclusion in health, education, livelihoods and governance, into the federal government of Nigeria Medium Term National Development Plan (2021-2025), a historical first for a Nigerian national plan.

Prior to joining R4D, Jite was an Atlantic fellow for social and economic equity based at the London School of Economics’ International Inequalities Institute, where her focus of study was on gender equity and dominant media narratives and discourses around how marginalized people make claims and challenge power for a more just world. Before that, she was the program director at ARDA Development Communication Inc, a leading development communication non-profit based in Lagos, Nigeria, where she worked with local and international donors, partners, clients, government agents, civil society, and communities to design and produce radio programs, videos, distance learning toolkits, participatory theatre productions, print IECs, IVR solutions, and mobile applications that addressed Nigeria’s endemic inequalities through advocacy and by targeting barriers to systems change and increasing access to information, services, networks, and social inclusion.

Ms. Phido holds an M.Sc. in inequalities and social science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MPH in global maternal and child health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and a B.A. in biology with a minor concentration in French from Clark University.

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Ms. Haji is a Senior Program Officer with the market shaping team at Results for Development (R4D) working in the Tanzania country office. As part of the market shaping team, her role is to effectively manage projects focused on improving access to medicines for mothers and children, provide day-to-day thought and technical leadership, lead internal and external stakeholder engagement and support business development efforts for the country office.

Before joining R4D, Nelsha led the strategic and annual business planning processes at the Community Care Access Center in Ontario, Canada – an arm of the Ministry of Health offering home- and community based-services to Ontario residents. As part of her role, she developed and rolled out a standardized annual business planning process and led various business development efforts for the organization. Nelsha also developed and implemented healthcare programs aimed at improving access to care and treatment for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) during her time working for the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Nelsha holds a master’s degree in business administration with a specialization in health services management and a bachelor of science in nursing from McMaster University.

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As a senior program associate at Results for Development (R4D), Tahmina provides technical and operational support to the Linked Immunization Action Network. This learning network brings together immunization practitioners, policymakers and partners from middle-income countries to systematically share their experiences, identify common immunization program challenges and tap into peer implementation knowledge to improve and strengthen the sustainability and equity of country immunization programs.

Before joining R4D, Tahmina worked at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids managing partnerships and grants with civil society organizations in Bangladesh and India to pass tobacco control health policies. She has also worked in South Africa, Lebanon and Bangladesh with local partners to help improve access to health services and vaccinations, especially among refugee and migrant populations. Locally, Tahmina worked in a New York middle school to help students graduate on to high school and spent two years implementing a community resource program at a New York primary care clinic to connect families to essential nutrition, education and maternal care resources. 

Tahmina holds a master’s degree in global health (MPH) from New York University and a BS in public health from American University. She is a native speaker of English and speaks fluent Bangla.

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Ms. Dogbe is a program officer on the nutrition practice at R4D where she supports nutrition projects across multiple sub-practices, with a focus on nutrition financing including the USAID Advancing Nutrition Project. 

Before joining R4D, Ms. Dogbe was a senior program associate at ACTION Secretariat where she provided program support to the ACTION partnership advocacy, policy research and policy analysis. Relevant issues under her portfolio included health financing, health systems, World Bank, multilateral banks, maternal, newborn child health and primary health. Nadine also contributed to the development of partnership advocacy strategies, partner and donor management, public-facing documents and programmatic and research design efforts. 

Nadine holds a master of science in public health with a concentration in health economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is fluent in French and Ewe. 

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As a senior program associate with R4D’s market-shaping practice, Ms. Morgan provides technical and programmatic support to the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) project to increase access to lifesaving MNCH medicines in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Morgan conducted qualitative research in The Gambia for her master’s dissertation and wrote a policy report for the Gambian government on crop diversification as a public health nutrition intervention. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a drug discovery researcher at a biotech start-up, where she contributed to projects on novel therapeutics for cancers and autoimmune diseases.

Ms. Morgan holds an MSc in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BS in integrative neuroscience with a minor in peace and justice studies from Fordham University.

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At Results at Development (R4D), Mr. Mateshi is a program director in Tanzania where he provides overall strategic leadership and technical direction, leads internal and external partner engagements, and manages high-impact projects and country operations for R4D’s market shaping practice. He also contributes to business development for new opportunities in the portfolio.

In his career, Mr. Mateshi has focused in improving availability of health commodities and uptake of health services. He successfully supported the Tanzania Ministry of Health in the introduction and development of various systems including Implanon NXT, an online HR management system, an online dashboard to improve data analytics and visibility for the family planning program, quantification of RMNCAH, HIV and malaria commodities, strategies and guidelines for RMNCAH and cancer programs and supporting market shaping work for family planning, maternal health, and cancer commodities.

Before joining R4D, Mr. Mateshi was a program manager with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and managed the SRH, cancer, and health financing portfolios in Tanzania.

Mr. Mateshi holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and is completing a master’s degree in health economics and policy from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. He is fluent in Swahili and English.

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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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Prior to R4D, Mr. Rogers was a logistics coordinator for Transaver LLC working primarily with its francophone client in Quebec to facilitate their logistical and transportation needs. He also volunteered with the Alliance for Citizen Engagement (ACE) where he assisted in guiding the research wing of the organization, published research briefs covering global health, the World Health Organization, the US role in international development, and the impact of climate change on health. He presented on climate change and health at ACE’s Climate Migration 2022 Conference.

Mr. Rogers studied public administration, international relations, and global health while working full-time in the logistics industry. He holds a graduate certificate in global health studies and a master’s in public administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He has a BA in history from St. John Fisher College. He is a native English speaker, speaks fluent French and conversational Spanish.

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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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