Team & Authors
IHP+Results Team
Shaun Conway / Programme Director (Re-Action!)
Shaun is Programme Director for IHP+Results. As an innovator with a medical degree, Shaun is passionate about designing and investing in leading-edge health and development solutions that have high impact potential.
For more details see Shaun’s Linked-In profile.
Martin Taylor / International Health and Development Consultant, Lead Author (Re-Action! UK)
Martin Taylor has spent has spent 15 years working on and leading health development programmes in China, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. Martin has worked for DFID and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria as a health strategist and health policy adviser. He has a broad experience of designing and coordinating multi-stakeholder initiatives and was part of the team that negotiated the establishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. He was responsible for DFID’s health and HIV/AIDS projects in China from 2003 – 2007. His expertise includes health systems, HIV/AIDS strategies, aid effectiveness and health aid architecture.
Tim Shorten / Programme Manager (Re-Action! UK)
Tim’s time is largely occupied as project manager for the IHP+Results, and with establishing and growing Re-Action!’s UK office. He previously worked for DFID where he worked within international forums including the UN and G8, and on policy – latterly focusing on health and HIV/AIDS.
Nicole Neumeister / Information & Communications Officer (Re-Action! UK)
Before joining Re-Action! (UK) Nicole worked in different project management and communications roles in the third, public and private sector. From 2006-7 she worked for the international NGO Tiri in Jerusalem, focusing on integrity building and accountability. She has also worked as EU Presidency Coordinator for the British Consulate General and DFID.
She has a Masters in Communication Science, Political Science and Psychology from the Free University in Berlin.
Mialy Dermish / Consultant (Re-Action! UK)
Mialy is a global health and development consultant based in Boston, U.S.A. Her work with the IHP+Results involves managing key relationships with our Francophone country representatives. She also runs a small youth development NGO in Madagascar, where she is from, called Tanora Sambatra.
Neil Spicer / Lecturer (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicines)
Neil is a lecturer in global health policy based at the Department of Global Health and Development since early 2006. My current research explores global HIV/AIDS initiatives in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the International Health Partnership (IHP+), and innovative community-based maternal and newborn child health interventions in India and Africa. His doctorate at the University of Glasgow focused on the delivery of primary healthcare in Jordan.
Sandra Mounier-Jack / Lecturer (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicines)
Sandra is a Lecturer in Health Policy at the Department of Public Health and Policy, whose main research area involves policy evaluation of the effectiveness of communicable disease control programmes and their interface with health systems.
She has a Master in Public Health and a Master of Business Administration, and has been involved in the health sector for many years. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator of a project that investigates how new vaccines are adopted and introduced by developing countries and what impact these vaccines have on health systems.
She has been an advisor to the UK House of Commons and House of Lords on pandemic preparedness questions and on the role of intergovernmental organizations in the control of infectious diseases. Before 2004, she was a project officer for EU in Russia.
Since 2007 she has been a Non Executive Director of a London NHS Primary Care Trust.
Tobias Luppe / Advisor (Oxfam)
Tobias works as a Global Health Advisor for Oxfam. He leads Oxfam’s work on aid effectiveness in health and is the manager of the Civil Society Health Policy Action Fund (CSHPAF). Prior to joining Oxfam he worked with various other organisations including five years as a Policy Advisor on Access to Essential Medicines in Germany and Nigeria with Doctors Without Borders.
Tobias holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Bonn and an MPH from the University of the Witwatersrand / Johannesburg.
