Dr. Duguma currently leads the MOH’s efforts to continue non-Covid essential services, in addition to providing regional support to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Previously, he served as the Oromia Regional Health Bureau Head. In this role, Dr. Duguma solidified his reputation as a health systems expert by identifying that his team’s ability to gather accurate, reliable, and timely data was being hampered by a lack of awareness, and commitment from managers, in response, he and his team created action plans to address these deficiencies. Dr. Duguma continues to advocate for more data training and encourages continuous coaching for health professionals.

Before stepping into her current role, Ann served as the CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, where she co-chaired the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission for SRHR. Prior to joining Guttmacher, Ann was president of Family Care International, an NGO working to improve reproductive, maternal and newborn health. She co-chairs the Strategic Advocacy Committee of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. Ann holds a master’s degree from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dr. Zelalem is the Lead Executive Officer for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health at the Federal Ministry of Health (MOH). She joined the Ministry of Health in 2017 as Director of Maternal and Child Health. Prior to joining the MOH, Dr. Meseret was the Medical Director at the University of Gondar Referral and Teaching Hospital. She is also practiced as a pediatrician and is passionate about neonatal, child, adolescent, and youth health. As one of the few woman leaders in the health sector, Dr. Meseret aims to bring about sustainable change through health systems strengthening and health diplomacy.

Dereje has more than 25 years of work experience mainly in public sector and with closely working a range of international and local development partners. He provides guidance and leads multi-disciplinary team to design replicable, cost-effective, adaptive solutions that empower communities, especially married and unmarried adolescent girls to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes. He is the lead to embed and scale up smart start as part of the public health system under RISE.

Seyoum has extensive experience successfully leading in program design, planning, implementation, and M&E. He is adept at utilizing human-centered design (HCD) approaches to create lasting solutions that advance social change. He currently leads the RISE program in Ethiopia, led by Population Services International (PSI) overseeing a multi-disciplinary program team to partner with the government to institutionalize and scale an innovative SRH program supporting married adolescent girls. Prior to joining PSI, Seyoum was a Sr. Technical Manager with Pact and member of the leadership team for USAID’s flagship national orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) program.

Roselyn is a health and social program specialist with over 15 years’ work experience in the non-profit sector. She possesses a good track record in managing family planning and sexual and reproductive health. Roselyn has strengthened community health systems through her work with relevant stakeholders to deliver health and development interventions. She is particularly interested in advancing innovative approaches and harmonization of resources/alignment of plans for efficiency and effectiveness. Roselyn currently works at Society for Family Health as the deputy team lead for the Delivering Innovation in Self-Care project in Nigeria where she engages with national and global stakeholders to advocate for, develop and strengthen self-care interventions.