Anthony Zwi is Professor of Global Health and Development at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He was born and schooled in South Africa where he went on to obtain his medical degree and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He left South Africa in 1986 and studied epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He also qualified as a specialist in public health in the UK and went on to become the Head of the Health Policy Unit at the LSHTM from 1997-2000. In 2002 he was appointed the first Head of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW and continued as Head of School for four years. Professor Zwi's research interests relate to a wide range of international development issues, mostly focused on policy and practice, and their interface with global health policies and politics.

He has deep interests in the international and national responses to disasters and conflict and in how systems are (re-) established in the aftermath of crises. He believes that global, national, and local policies should be informed by key values such as human rights, equity, social justice, non-discrimination, and participation, as well as by the best available evidence. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, chapters in books, and reports and sits on the editorial or advisory boards of several reputable journals, including The Lancet and Global Public Health. He has supervised over 25 PhD students to completion and believes strongly in supporting the next generation of global health practitioners. He does so with a commitment to decolonisation and to locally-led development.

Jane Chuma is a Senior Health Economist at The World Bank. She leads the Bank’s support to the Kenyan health sector. Before joining the World Bank, Jane founded and led the Health Economics Research Unit at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Program. Her interest includes the implementation and evaluation of different health financing models for universal health coverage, Health Systems Strengthening and Capacity Building.

Alfred Yawson is a Professor of Finance and Head of Finance and Banking at the University of Adelaide Business School. Before taking up this position, he held various academic and administrative positions at the University of Adelaide, University of New South Wales and City University London, including Head of Finance & Banking Department and Associate Head of Research. He was a visiting fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), and the University of Ghana Business School. Professor Yawson has broad research interests in finance and economics, particularly corporate finance and healthcare finance.

He has published in leading finance journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Managerial Finance, an A-ranked journal. He is a Chartered Accountant with industry experience from reputable financial institutions. Professor Yawson was part of the government team that pioneered the implementation of Value Added Tax policy in Ghana. He consults for both government and private organisations.

Henrike Körner is a qualitative health researcher with extensive experience in researching the experience of living with HIV, including culture, stigma, and access to health and social services among people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. Her major works are in the fields of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C prevention and treatment in ethnic minorities. She was one of the early researchers to investigate heterosexually acquired HIV infection in Australia at the time the country’s attention was overwhelmingly on HIV infection among gay men. Her key works include examining the barriers to HIV testing among people from CALD backgrounds and interpersonal alignment in the clinical encounter when negotiating treatment for hepatitis C. She worked for more than 10 years at the National Centre in HIV Social Research (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Sydney and a strong expertise in exploring sensitive health topics such as sexual and reproductive health. Her skills include using different qualitative methods: narrative, language analysis, grounded theory and case studies, to produce insight and knowledge from information that does not involve numbers.

Augustine Asante is a health economist with over 15 years of experience researching health financing equity and health systems in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). He has worked extensively in the Asia-Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa, evaluating complex health systems interventions, including assessing the impact of health financing and human resources for health reforms on equity of access to health services (read more from the Team page).