About Us

HSI is a small woman-owned global health consulting business that provides technical support for strengthening health systems and for health system reform. Our expertise includes health finance, economic analysis, decentralized capacity building, policy reform, performance evaluation and monitoring. Our work in disease specific programs includes HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. We apply processes and tools in partnership with host country stakeholders ensuring that results are useful for decision makers in both central and local government roles. HSI is a well established USAID small business subcontractor having worked with Chemonics, PATH, URC, IntraHealth, and John Snow Inc. HSI has experience as a prime contractor with PATH, DFID, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

HSI is a group of renowned international health finance and management specialists, providing strong core capability and decades of experience worldwide. HSI has led multidisciplinary teams throughout the world drawing from our trusted consultants and country partners to meet specific project objectives. We are committed to delivering results that are practical and deliver high added value to our clients, and which lead to measurable improvement in the policy, governance, financial and infrastructure capacity of health sectors worldwide.

Health Strategies International LLC is committed to promoting access to health services through development of efficient sustainable health infra-structures.

Organizations that HSI works with include:

• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• The Global Fund
• The World Health Organization
• The UK Department for International Development
• ABT Associates
• Chemonics
• University Research Corporation
• John Snow, Inc.
• IntraHealth
• Emerging Markets Group
• PATH
• Management Sciences for Health

Staff and Senior Consultants

• Anne Martin-Staple
  Anne is the founder and President of Heath Strategies International. She has over 20 years experience in health sector finance, costing analysis, policy reform and capacity development. She has extensive international health care consulting experience with a focus on finance issues related to HIV/AIDs. She has been a consultant and project manager for WHO, the World Bank, Abt Associates, DFID, US AID, Family Health International, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and PATH. She has been on the faculty at Duke University and was for three years a visiting Lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations. She is currently a Research Scholar at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics.
• Rubi H. Sugana
  Rubi has over 15 years experience in financial analysis, tax and government expenditure modeling for developing countries. He has worked for governments and development agencies in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Rubi’s focus at HSI is on developing health sector finance and costing tools. Rubi serves as lecturer for the Duke Center for International Development providing training for government executives in financial management, financial modeling, policy analysis and revenue planning. He received his BSc in civil engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia and his MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
• Jerry VanSant
  Dr. VanSant is a management and organization specialist with 25 years experience as an executive manager and consultant to private firms, non-profit organizations and government agencies. He has provided planning, management, and information support to development programs in every region worldwide including regional director of a national NGO development program in Indonesia. His focus with HSI is on developing public-private partnerships and policy leadership consulting.
• Tazhmoye Crawford
  Tazhmoye Crawford has a M.Sc. in public administration and extensive field experience in the Caribbean in areas of health policy development, family planning and monitoring and evaluation. She has worked for the Jamaican Ministry of Health as well as US AID funded programs.
• Imad Dwiek
  Imad Dwiek has a doctor in pharmacy from Aman National University and a master's degree in public health from Tulane University. Imad provides expertise in drug supply issues, supply chain management, procurement of reagents and test kits, drug costing analysis, and drug supply policy. He worked for four years on program management, budgeting and public health policy serving as a health officer for the World Bank in the West Bank and Gaza. He has worked on projects funded by the World Bank and USAID.
• Christina Vladu
  Christina Vladu is a family practice physician trained in Bucharest and has an MA in health services management from Manchester University. Her clinical experience includes working with underserved communities in family planning and reproductive health. She has extensive health policy development experience having worked in Eastern Europe with the World Bank on numerous health policy reform and decentralization projects. She is fluent in French, Spanish, English and Romanian.
• Christina Chiotan
  Christina Chiotan served for five years as an insurance policy specialist and expert in monitoring and evaluation of public health programs within the Ministry of Health in Romania. Her focus with HSI is on supporting the development of national insurance schemes and decentralization. Trained as a dentist, Christina has worked extensively on US AID and EU funded public health projects.
• Philip Mwalali
  Philip Mwalali is a senior reproductive health expert and MD. He earned his MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He works in capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and program management for programs in HIV/AIDs and reproductive health. His experience includes work in Kenya, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique, Ghana, Uganda, and South Africa. He has led teams to establish standards of care and clinical procedures for neonatal care and trained health care providers throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
• Naawa Sipilanyambe
  Naawa Sipilanyambe, a physician and malaria control expert, served for four years as head of the parasitology unit at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia before moving into program management. She has worked extensively with Zambia's malaria control program and is an expert resource consultant for WHO and the Global Fund on vector control, case management and parasitology.