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Our Team

Umar Amir Abdullahi

Partner Programs and Quality Manager

Umar is a social development expert with extensive work experience improving the development indices of low-income households and disadvantaged communities in Nigeria. He has worked to form partnerships with government actors and community stakeholders to build sustainability and establish community ownership of projects.

Dr Sahar Khayeche

Research and Programs Associate

Sahar is a Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) by training, with a MPH from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has gained valuable experience working with a health organisation in Tunisia as project manager for community screening programs for cervical cancer. Additionally, she has worked in humanitarian settings in Istanbul, contributing to healthcare services for vulnerable populations in complex environments.

Martyn James

Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director

Martyn has 15+ years of experience in building partnerships and industry-wide alliances in the technology sector at Google.

In his last position as a senior leader in Android Partnerships, he founded and scaled up global teams, set strategy in complexity, and delivered large multi- year programs.

Dr Jun Young (Charlie) Jeong

Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director

Charlie is a medical doctor with a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.

He previously completed a vaccine research project in Pakistan, providing advisory support to the government. Charlie also has ample experience in various low-resource settings such as Mongolia, Fiji, and rural Australia where he helped provide medical care.

Our Partners

We are proud to work in partnership with local organisations and the healthcare systems.

iDevPro African Institute have implemented our programs in Kano, Nigeria, from the very beginning. We thank Executive Director Mansur M. Tukur and team for their continued partnership.

We also thank the community health workers of the CHIPS program, and the Primary Healthcare leadership at LGA, State (Kano MoH and Primary Healthcare Management Board) and Federal Level (FMoH & NPHCDA).

Our Advisors

Dr Zachary Wagner

Dr Zachary Wagner is Associate Professor (Research) of Economics at the University of Southern California, known for his expertise in global health policy and innovative field experiments. Within his research portfolio spanning health financing, behaviour change, and disease prevention, he led a key randomized controlled trial in Uganda, evaluating several community health worker distribution models for ORS and zinc to treat diarrhoea in children under-5, identifying significant potential for increased ORS and zinc uptake.

Jane & Simon Berry

Jane and Simon Berry are founders of ColaLife and a driving force behind the ORS and Zinc Co-pack Alliance (ORSZCA). ColaLife catalysed huge improvements in ORS+zinc usage rates in Zambia through both the private and public sectors. This success led to engaging the WHO on the addition of co-packaged ORS+zinc to the Model Essential Medicines List, and later building ORSZCA to convene stakeholders with the aim of accelerating the uptake of the co-packaging recommendation.

Patrick Stadler

Patrick is co-founder and chair of the board of GiveWell-recommended nonprofit, New Incentives. He helped New Incentives scale from to over 100,000 users for their vaccination programme in Nigeria.

Joey Savoie

Joey co-founded Charity Entrepreneurship in 2018 and the organisation has since helped launch numerous high-impact nonprofits through its Incubation Program.

Joey previously founded and led Charity Science Health, a global health charity sending SMS reminders for immunisation appointments in India.