Moytrayee Guha, MPH is an accomplished global health practitioner, strategist, and health systems and policy researcher dedicated to building resilient, sustainable, and people-centered health systems in LMICs. With over 15 years of experience, she specializes in health systems strengthening (HSS), service delivery, health emergency preparedness and response (HEPR), infectious diseases, RMNCH, primary health care, and implementation science. Her expertise spans technical and strategic leadership, systems thinking, capacity building, program management, M&E and policy development. Currently, Moytrayee serves as a Senior Health Specialist/Consultant with the World Bank’s HNP Global Engagement Unit and as Program Director of the Center for Health System Sustainability at Brown University. In these roles, she provides leadership, capacity building, and technical assistance to cross-sectoral government leaders, Ministries of Health, policymakers, and practitioners on HEPR, health system resilience, service delivery, governance, multisectoral partnerships, and policy implementation. In 2024, Moytrayee was selected as a WomenLift Health/Gates Foundation Leadership Fellow, a prestigious women’s leadership and executive coaching program recognizing outstanding achievements in global health and development.
Previously, Moytrayee served as the Director of Programs and Strategy for the MGH/Harvard Global Health Innovation Lab, where she led MNCH, global surgery, and quality improvement programs across 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. She spearheaded the establishment of the African Institute for Health Transformation and Center for Maternal Health Innovations in Kenya as well as a Global Health Leadership Fellowship in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH). Moytrayee has been instrumental in developing and implementing innovative, evidence-based HSS interventions funded by the Gates Foundation, WHO, World Bank, USAID, UK Aid/DFID, Rockefeller Foundation, and Wellcome Trust. She has received several honors and awards from the Saving Lives at Birth Consortium, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital, Columbia University, and the Ministries of Health in India, Bangladesh, and Kenya for her exemplary work on strengthening health systems and reducing maternal and newborn mortality in LMICs. She has also co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, policy briefs, and technical reports.
Moytrayee has held leadership, research, and technical assistance roles at the United Nations, Partners in Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard SPH, Columbia’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), and Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals. She holds an MPH from Columbia University, has completed leadership and management training at Harvard University and the London School of Economics, and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree at Johns Hopkins SPH. Moytrayee is fluent in English, Hindi, Bengali, and Thai, and brings deep cross-cultural competency and field experience from living and working in over 25 countries across Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas.
