Member of the Council

Dr. Margaret Makumi is a medical doctor, a Public Health specialist and a Takemi Fellow in International Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has vast experience developing, managing, implementing, researching, and advising health programs and institutional strengthening in the region for better health outcomes.

Margaret has worked for the public and private sectors holding high leadership and management positions; providing strategic directions and thinking including development and implementation of policies, strategic plans; identifying and designing new projects aligned to the host country’s thematic policies and strategic plans; taking lead roles in programmatic, financial and administrative oversight of complex national and donor funded health and population related programs and projects.