Annie Haakenstad, Ph.D.

Visiting Scientist (former)
University of Washington

Annie Haakenstad completed her doctorate at Harvard in 2019.  Annie’s research focuses on financial risk protection, resource allocation, and health financing in low- and middle-income countries.  Previously, Annie worked at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and consulted for the World Bank, UNICEF, the UN Environment Programme, and the UN Offices at Geneva.  Annie received her Bachelors in International Affairs from the George Washington University and her Masters in…

Snipta Mallick

Student Research Assistant (former)

Snipta is pursuing double degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. On the India Health Systems Project, she helps with analyses of the Odisha survey data. Previously, as Healthcare Policy Coordinator for the Roosevelt Institute, she analyzed the impact of digital health interventions on the continuity of health care for children in the foster care system and advised student-led public health campaigns nationally.…

Michelle Olakkengil

Research Assistant (former)
Global Health and Population

Michelle Olakkengil recently received her Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. During her studies, Michelle worked on professional projects for governments and non-profit organizations. With D-tree International, she evaluated the heterogeneity of programmatic impact of an mHealth intervention across different sub-populations of postpartum women in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Before this, Michelle served as a Policy Research Consultant for the Planning…

Elizabeth Osborn

Project Director (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Osborn is Project Director of the India Health Systems Project. Previously, Betsy led multi-disciplinary research initiatives on Indonesia, India, and Malaysia at Harvard, and had a decade of service with the U.S. Agency for International Development including five years in Indonesia. Betsy has an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is a current MPH 45 student in global heath here at…

Alok Ranjan

Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Alok Ranjan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur. He obtained his doctorate in Public Health from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, in 2019. His research focused on measuring unmet healthcare needs in the context of the progress towards universal health coverage in India. Alok’s research interests lie in the areas of access to healthcare, financial…

Dan Schwarz

Director of Primary Health Care (former)
Ariadne Labs

Dan Schwarz, MD MPH is the Director of Primary Health Care at Ariadne Labs, overseeing work in over twenty countries, across four continents. Dan serves on the Leadership Group of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (improvingphc.org), and as an adviser to the World Health Organization and the Lancet Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases and Poverty. Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Dan served as the Executive Director, and then Chief Medical…

Liana R. Woskie

Visiting Graduate Student (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Liana R. Woskie focuses on quality of care especially related to in-patient settings for the India project. Liana is also a PhD candidate in Health Policy and Health Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her dissertation focuses on the evaluation of health system performance with a focus on person-centeredness and patient autonomy, and using this work to identify human rights violations. In 2015-16, she served as the coordinator…