Krishna Jafa
Global health leader
- Role
- Interim CEO at Missing Billion Initiative
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Krishna Jafa
She/ her/ hers)Physician and epidemiologist with 25 years of experience in the financing, fundraising, design, management, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of health programs and research across the donor, private, non-governmental, and public sectors globally-Apply strategic systems change thinking to leverage both supply- and demand-side public, commercial and nonprofit delivery channels and platforms to improve the coverage, quality, and equity of healthcare-Deep experience in building sustainable, effective, efficient, equitable, and gender-intentional health delivery and social business models to scale up life-saving interventions, and in applying rigorous and smart metrics and leveraging existing data to measure progress and outcomes-Effectively leverage digital, diagnostic, treatment, and other technologies in a comprehensive and user-centered manner to inform improved decision-making and targeting of cost-effective healthcare and health information-Deeply committed advocate for women’s and girls’ health and reproductive rights-Medical degree from Rajasthan University (India), MPH from Harvard University (USA); alumna of the US CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service.
Experience
Interim CEO
Nov 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MPH, International Health
2000 — 2001
University of Rajasthan
MBBS, Medicine
1990 — 1995
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Certificate, Big Data and Analytics
2018 — 2019
Skills
- International Health
- Prevention
- Public/Private Partnerships
- Clinical Research
- Grants
- Family Planning
- Healthcare
- Hiv Prevention
- Africa
- Project Management
- Proposal Writing
- Health Communication
- Clinical Governance
- Medicine
- Health Policy
- Qualitative Research
- Program Evaluation
- Epidemiology
- International Development
- Healthcare Management
- Research
- Ngos
- Program Management
- Community Health
- Reproductive Health
- Capacity Building
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