Secretariat
The GFF Secretariat is responsible for managing the daily work of the GFF, including the GFF Multidonor Trust Fund; analytical work and technical assistance to GFF-supported country platforms, programs, and projects; engagement with global donors, partners, and stakeholders; results monitoring and reporting; and knowledge and learning.
The GFF Secretariat team is comprised of diverse experts in areas such as health systems, health financing, civil registration and vital statistics, maternal and child health, nutrition, family planning, private sector engagement, communications, knowledge and learning, and monitoring and evaluation, as well as secondees from GFF partner organizations.
Contact: GFFSecretariat@worldbank.org
many health projects and analytical works as well as policy dialogue in countries such as Mali, Chad, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, and Gabon.
He has over 20 years of experience in public health and health system strengthening, including more than 10 years with the government of Cameroon, before joining the World Bank in 2015.
Before joining the GFF, he worked at the Technical Agency for Information on Hospital Care (ATIH) in France where he contributed to the maintenance of the French DRGs system and to the experimentation of bundle payments for surgery. He supported the department of health systems financing and governance at the World Health Organization (WHO) in developing a strategy for setting up a community of practice (CoP) on anti-corruption, transparency and accountability in health, a topic he addressed in his doctoral thesis. With WHO, Hyacinthe also participated in updating the National Health Accounts 1995–2010 of 13 Regional Office for the Americas (AMRO) Caribbean countries and in the production of the expenditure profile of AMRO countries.
As a consultant with Vital Strategies, Hyacinthe contributed to the implementation of the data to policy (D2P) program in Cameroon, leading all the sessions on health economic evaluation.
Ed is a supply chain expert and trusted advisor to governments and international donors in public health commodity security and medicines access. In addition to a wide range of consulting projects across Africa and a secondment to the NDoH in South Africa, he was on the founding teams of Coca-Cola’s Project Last Mile and the Africa Resource Centre — Africa’s Public Health Supply Chain Institution. Ed has also held regional and technical director roles for consultancies and NGOs.
Ed holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Bristol University and a supply chain micromasters credential from MIT.
A recognized leader on gender equality, reproductive health, and adolescent rights, Anju headed UNICEF’s work on gender equality, leading the development and implementation of UNICEF’s innovative and highly effective Gender Action Plan. She has been a leader in shaping the SDG target and global movement to end child marriage, in establishing the multi-donor, multi-country global program to end child marriage, and in shaping the research agenda on child marriage and adolescent health.
Previously at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Anju led the design and impact evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs, the keynote paper for the landmark 2007 Women Deliver conference, and the “Fertility and Empowerment Network.” She holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Michigan.