LEADERSHIP

Angelica Cristello Sarteau, MSPH, PhD is a Doctoral Fellow at the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Formally trained in nutrition, epidemiology, and medical anthropology at Harvard and John Hopkins universities, her expertise spans formative research, clinical trial and program development and implementation, as well as quantitative and qualitative process and outcome evaluations. She has a specific focus on improving the management and outcomes of diabetes, including in humanitarian settings.

Anna Nakayama, MSc, RD, LDN, ANutr is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in public health. She has 10 years of experience in program management for health initiatives and research, including for humanitarian non-profits, the U.S. government, and academic medical centers, with projects in Kenya, Malawi, and the U.S. In addition to her role at IADA, she provides nutrition counseling to low-income patients with chronic diseases and serves on the American Red Cross Disaster Action Team. She holds a Master's degree in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Eiman Hag, BDS, MPH, MD is a public health professional with over a decade of experience in health system strengthening, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and healthcare management in low- and middle-income countries. She has worked with PHI (Sudan), the WHO Country Office (Sudan), and the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Eiman has led efforts to integrate NCD care into emergency response plans across 22 countries, developing the Regional Framework for Action on NCDs in Emergencies. She has supported critical NCD interventions in crises, including establishing a Regional Expert Network for chronic kidney diseases and advocating for renal dialysis as a life-saving intervention in emergencies.

Emma Klatman, MSc is the Global Advocacy and Policy Manager for Life for a Child, a program of Diabetes Australia that supports young people living with diabetes in less-resourced settings worldwide. She has lived with type 1 diabetes for most of her life and has been a visible advocate since childhood. Emma holds a Master’s degree in International Public Policy and is a recognized leader in global diabetes advocacy, with particular expertise in health system strengthening, access to care, and rights-based approaches. Within IADA, Emma leads on embedding lived experience across humanitarian diabetes efforts and shaping strategic approaches that reflect the realities and voices of people living with diabetes.

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Jay Bagaria,MD, DTMH, MPH is a health professional with almost 20 years’ experience in global public health, specializing in reducing health inequalities, addressing the social determinants of health, health system strengthening and noncommunicable diseases including in complex fragile environments. She has extensive experience working with the UK Government (Department for International Development and Department of Health), NHS, WHO and civil society including oversight and governance of large health programs.

Jing Luo,MD, MPH is Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining Pitt, he was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He trained in primary care internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He received his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He currently serves as the Principal Investigator for the HumAn-1 Study.

Kiran Jobanputra,MBChB, MRCGP, MPH is a medical doctor and public health practitioner, who has worked for 14 years in humanitarian field programs and as Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) advisor and Deputy Medical Director for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He currently works as a family physician and consultant with WHO on strengthening NCD integration in humanitarian response. He is a member of MSF’s reflection and analysis network, working on health equity and health needs of internally displaced people.

Philippa Boulle,MBBS, MPH, DTMH, is the Non-Communicable Diseases(NCD) Advisor and leader of the Chronic Conditions team in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland and has led MSF’s international working group on NCDs, having previously overseen humanitarian interventions for the organization in Africa, the Middle East and Central America. She publishes and lectures on NCDs in humanitarian settings.

Polly Markandya, MA leads IADA’s communications and fundraising, and joined the organisation in 2025. She previously spent over 20 years working with Médecins Sans Frontières managing communications across the UK and internationally. She also has experience in the corporate and public sectors working on waste and recycling, and in leading communications and fundraising for global water and sanitation initiatives. She holds a Master’s in Marketing Communications from the University of London.

Sylvia Kehlenbrink,MD, is an Endocrinologist and Director of Global Endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and leads the NCDs in Conflict Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Her work focuses on improving diabetes care and insulin access in humanitarian and low-resource settings. She led the first inter-agency study on diabetes in humanitarian contexts and collaborates with the WHO on type 1 diabetes guidelines. In 2019, she organized the first Symposium on Diabetes in Humanitarian Crises at Harvard, which resulted in the Boston Declaration and formation of the International Alliance for Diabetes Action (IADA).

Éimhín Ansbro, MBBCh, MSc, DTMH is a practicing primary care physician and public health researcher based in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Clinically trained in Ireland, she spent several years developing Non-Communicable Disease services at Médecins Sans Frontières before joining LSHTM in 2016. She holds an MSc (TMIH) and PhD in Epidemiology of NCDs and works on implementation research on NCD care delivery in humanitarian settings.

Bayard Roberts, PhD is a Professor of Health Systems and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His work focuses on mental health and non-communicable diseases in settings affected by war and forced displacement. He co-organises the 'Management and Evaluation of Public Health Projects in Humanitarian Crises' module on LSHTM’s Distance Learning MSc on 'Public Health in Humanitarian Crises' and teaches on the Conflict and Health module and the Diploma in Tropical Nursing. He was the Guest Editor for the journal of Migration and Health’s series on internal displacement and health (2021-2022), and Guest Editor for the Lancet series on public health in humanitarian crises (2017).

Lilian Kiapi, MBChB, MPH is a global public health leader with over 25 years’ experience establishing programs and projects, providing short- and long -term technical assistance, leading strategy formulation, design, implementation and evaluation of emergency and development public health projects in refugee, internally displaced and underserved communities in 26 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA, Asia and Latin America. Lilian has vast experience in fundraising, and in capacity development of health workers.

Rachel Nugent, PhD is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington Department of Global Health and was Director of the Center for Global NCDs at RTI until 2023. She has more than 30 years’ experience in global development as a researcher, practitioner, and policy advisor to governments. She served as a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine Committee on Economic Evaluation, the International Expert Group for the Global Nutrition Report, and The Lancet Commissions on Global Health 2050 and Women, Power, and Cancer. She led the Lancet Task Force on NCDs and Economics in 2018 and was selected by the Washington Global Health Association as a Global Health Luminary in 2021.

Stéphane Besançon,MSc is a biologist and nutritionist with degrees in nutritional physiopathology and international development. He is Associate Professor in Global Health at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He founded and leads the international NGO Santé Diabète which specialises in the prevention and management of NCDs and especially diabetes in Africa. He is a member of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs and was a member of the Lancet Commission on Diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa.