Our team

Sharon Winks

Chair

Sharon is a highly experienced and successful executive consultant and Not for Profit (NFP) board Director with a career spanning over thirty years in both the public and private sectors. She has been the Chair and member of various NFP boards at a local and national level for nearly 20 years and currently facilitates the Company Director Course and presents webinars for the AICD. She has also worked in South East Asia with the World Bank and UNDP.

Dr Nick Chapman

Chief Executive Officer

As the CEO of Impact Global Health, Nick is ultimately responsible for every project and publication, acting as the public face of the organisation while using his background in medicine to ensure that the annual G-FINDER report is clear, accurate and engaging.

Cindi Lefari

Non-Executive Director

Cindi is an accomplished legal and corporate finance expert with over a decade of board-level experience. As a non-executive director, she brings strategic insights on risk management, corporate governance, and compliance, leveraging her background in law and a masters degree in public health.

Ronan Lehane

Non-Executive Director

Ronan brings over 15 years of accounting and finance experience across the US, Europe, and Australia to his role as a Director on the Impact Global Health board, helping to provide financial oversight for our operations.

Anna Doubell

Chief Operating Officer

As Impact Global Health’s Chief Operating Officer, Anna retains a hands-on role in critical phases of project work, while also driving system redevelopment, people management, strategic direction and future projects.

Andrew Tuttle

Chief Strategy Officer

Andrew leads on shaping and advancing Impact Global Health’s work in communications, external relations, business development and organisational strategy. Andrew has many years of global health and international development experience with a focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights and infectious diseases. He has targeted experience in family planning, safe abortion, vaccination policy, and social and behaviour change communications.

Maya Goldstein

Director of Strategy and External Affairs; Gender Lead

Maya leads our business development and partnerships work, executing external engagement and organisational development strategies that build strong, enduring and mutually reinforcing relationships with key experts and organisations across the global health R&D sector. As Gender Lead, she is also responsible for advising on the design and execution of gender-intentional research, external engagement, and internal operations, and co-leads a number of Impact Global Health’s sexual, maternal, women’s and gender-related health projects.

Dr Lindsay Keir

Director of Science and Policy

Lindsay is responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy of Impact Global Health’s work. Her team is composed of medical doctors and scientists who provide the science, global health and medical knowledge to the organisation and keep up to date with shifting research and development landscape. This detailed understanding of global health diseases and R&D is used to conceptualise new projects and set the scope of work to ensure the data collected is accurate and relevant to global health.

Harriet Bell

Director of Communications

Harriet leads our strategic external communications, to help make Impact Global Health’s value and offering visible and accessible to all stakeholders. She manages our media relationships, website and social media, and aims to increase the reach and impact of our research outputs. She has particular expertise in the development of digital ways to communicate, disseminate and support the use of research and evidence by policy makers, advocacy groups, academia and industry.

Dr Sabastine Wakdok

Director of Research

Sabastine leads Impact Global Health’s research and analysis portfolio related to the biomedical product development landscape across neglected diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and sexual and reproductive health. His team is comprised of dedicated and exceptional scientists, biomedical, economics, and public health professionals who rigorously analyse the global landscape of R&D funding in global health.

Rebecca Vanderhoek

Senior Operations Manager

Vanessa Candeias

Strategy and External Affairs Lead

Dr Vipul Chowdhary

Technical Lead

Dr Cécile Ventola

Senior Technical Officer

Emmanuelle Bomo

Communications Lead

Dr Amelia Hynen

Senior Technical Officer

Dr Paul Barnsley

Research and Analysis Lead

Lisette Oversteegen

Data Lead

Juliette Borri

Senior Analyst

Hinjal Bhatia

Technical Officer

Dr Alex Asamoah Ankomah

Technical Officer

Dr Céline Aerts

Analyst

Maddie Kearney

Analyst

Thomas Clifton

Analyst

Omotola Olufemi

Analyst

Dr Diana Portela

Project Co-Ordinator

Lee Sternberg

Senior Accounting Manager

Gideon Asamoah

Research Assistant

Nathan Luque

Research Assistant

Stella Lintzeris

Research Assistant

Indra Rudiansyah

Research Assistant

Kevin Okwaraeke

Research Assistant

Dr Kate Murnane

Research Assistant

Benny Wirawan

Research Assistant

Michelle Hasham

Research Assistant

Dr Marta Ferraresso

Research Assistant

Dr Ana Baburamani

Research Assistant

Tiana Mahncke

Research Assistant

Shavon David

Research Assistant

Delfina Rampone

Research Assistant