We have thoughtfully assembled a team of seasoned public health and development professionals, whose expertise covers the entire spectrum of our clients' programming needs. Our staff members are based in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, and nearly every associate has 15 or more years of international public health experience. Though we come from varying backgrounds and specialties, we share our clients’ passion for bringing smart, measurable interventions to global health and development challenges.

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  CHASTAIN MANN

  Chief Executive Officer





CHASTAIN MANN

Chief Executive Officer

Chastain has been working in international health for 25 years, with more than 10 years of that time implementing programs in sub-Saharan Africa. A former Foreign Service Officer, Chastain has worked for bilateral and multi-lateral agencies, as well as for large and small non-profits. In her 11 years at Population Services International (PSI) Chastain served as the country director in Togo and Uganda, where she designed and implemented social marketing and franchising programs in HIV, reproductive health, malaria, and child survival. In each place, with a team of more than 100 local staff, Chastain developed marketing and communications strategies for health products and services, as well as monitoring and evaluation, sales and distribution, franchising, and advocacy approaches. As PSI’s VP for Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, Chastain led a team that created fund raising strategies to raise more than $4 billion over 6 years.

More recently, Chastain worked with Woman Care Global as President of Programs, where she led fund raising efforts as well as program implementation, with a focus on improving the value chain for reproductive health commodities. Chastain’s inspiration for starting Mann Global Health was to bring together some of the world’s leading experts in measurable, effective health programming, and share their talents with global health clients.

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  JESSICA LATHREN

  Operations Manager





JESSICA LATHREN

Operations Manager

Jessica is a thought-leader in private sector marketing, and an experienced team leader. During her 15-year tenure at IBM, she worked exclusively in global partner marketing, collaborating with many of the world's largest and most notable technology firms to launch value-added business solutions in a variety of industries, including healthcare and government. Her responsibilities spanned multiple geographies and lines of business. Her areas of expertise include project management, communications, operations management, marketing strategy, asset development and event planning. Jessica leads operations support at Mann Global Health.

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  JENNIE AYLWARD

  Senior Associate





JENNIE AYLWARD

Senior Associate

An advocacy and policy expert, Jennie ensures that global health programs benefit from supportive, evidence-based public policies, and robust investment. Jennie has an extensive background in public health advocacy and policy, having led these efforts at PSI and at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), where she was Director of Advocacy and Policy. A legislative specialist by training, Jennie worked in a professional lobbying firm earlier in her career, and as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. Jennie has contributed to advocacy efforts around both communicable and non-communicable diseases with clients including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her skills in strategic planning, communications, and coalition development complement her global health subject matter expertise.

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  ZAHRA AZIZ

  Senior Associate





ZAHRA AZIZ

Senior Associate

Zahra Aziz is a nonprofit management and communications strategist, brand builder and advisor to executive teams and boards. As a consultant she has guided sector leaders and board members through leadership transitions and change management processes. She has advised on business and advocacy strategy, built large-scale communications and marketing plans, and brokered numerous partnerships in the sexual and reproductive health sector. Previously, she served as the founding communications director for Family Planning 2020, where she led the creation of the FP2020 brand after the landmark 2012 London Summit on Family Planning. Zahra also drove communication efforts behind EngenderHealth’s award-winning WTFP?!, Where’s the Family Planning?! Campaign, and UNFPA’s first iteration of the Safe Birth, Even Here campaign to prevent maternal deaths in humanitarian and fragile settings. Zahra holds a MSc. in Strategic Communications from Columbia University and is currently pursuing an MLA in Management, with a nonprofit concentration, from Harvard University.

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  Hanna Baldwin

  Senior Associate





Hanna Baldwin

Senior Associate

Hanna is a development specialist comfortable working with all levels of field staff, technical experts, boards of directors, donors and government agencies. She has over 20 years of experience in leading projects and organizations in the public health space in Africa. In her 18 years with Population Services International, Hanna has served in wide range of positions gaining expertise in project management, systems development and managing organizational change, budgeting and budget management, public/private partnerships, social franchising, and supply chain management. She has MSc Econ from Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland. Hanna has lived in East Africa for over 15 years and for the last ten has called Uganda her home.

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  Andrea Bare

  Senior Associate, Senior Advisor with the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan





Andrea Bare

Senior Associate, Senior Advisor with the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Andrea has 20 years of consulting experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology product development and commercialization. Her expertise spans healthcare payer systems, as well as therapies for both communicable and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and oncology.

A dedicated market researcher and commercialization consultant, Andrea has considerable experience in the private sector. Prior to transitioning to global public health, Andrea led a wide variety of consulting engagements for private sector clients such as AstraZeneca, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis. She is adept in conducting qualitative research and working with stakeholders across the spectrum, from product design/development, to funding and investment, through to healthcare delivery. Andrea is deeply committed to market understanding as a means to advance global health outcomes through strategy development and investment. She has extensive experience in research project planning and execution including instrument design, data collection/analysis, and generation of actionable and insightful recommendations. During her 13 years with the bioStrategies Group she established the firm’s payer consultancy and, subsequently, led a team at Xcenda in conducting primary and secondary healthcare stakeholder research.

Andrea is a Senior Advisor with the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI), where she partners with donor, consulting and implementing organizations to analyze global health markets and advance private sector solutions. During her tenure with WDI, she has worked with Gavi, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition and USAID on market dynamics projects and advisory assignments.

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  Julie Becker

  Senior Associate





Julie Becker

Senior Associate

Julie Becker is a results-driven strategist and tactician with over 25 years of experience managing and implementing health programs in low- and middle-income countries in the public, nonprofit and private sectors. She brings insight, pragmatism and technical knowledge to the design, implementation and evaluation of health service and advocacy programs, as well as preparation for the introduction of new products. She is recognized and called upon for her broad networks in global health and deep programmatic expertise, particularly in women’s health, HIV and immunization. Julie has a history of developing innovative programs and partnerships. She also has extensive experience conducting in-country and global stakeholder consultations and evidence reviews, and distilling results to inform strategy, define priorities, articulate vision and common objectives, and identify concrete next steps.

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  Katherine Bliss

  Senior Associate





Katherine Bliss

Senior Associate

Katherine Bliss brings her expertise in the social sciences, international relations, and program management to her work supporting clients focused on improving health and development outcomes worldwide. Trained as a historian of Latin America, Katherine spent the early part of her career teaching at the university level and publishing books and articles on gender relations and public health reforms in 20th century Mexico before pursuing post-doctoral work in population and development studies and shifting her professional focus to global health. As a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State, she led work on environmental health and supported the development of foreign policy approaches to pandemic preparedness. During her time with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, Katherine oversaw a multi-program project on the influence of the BRICS countries on the global health agenda and directed efforts to better link the WASH and health sectors at the policy level. Her recent projects have examined donor country engagement with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and how lower-middle income countries in Central America and West Africa are experiencing the transition away from Gavi support. Katherine is an accomplished writer, speaker, and facilitator recognized for bridging diverse communities and integrating the complexity of multiple perspectives into her work.