Full Name
Jo-angeline Kalambo
Job Title
Senior Specialist, Public Health And M&e
Company
The Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tb And Malaria
Speaker Bio
Jo-Angeline Kalambo is a distinguished global health leader with over two decades of progressive experience in public health strategy, program design, grant management, and cross-sectoral partnerships. She is currently serving as a Senior Public Health and M&E Specialist at The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria based in Geneva, Switzerland.
She has represented The Global Fund at numerous external forums in global health issues and has been instrumental in mobilizing resources and advocating for impactful global health investments. Her current role involves providing technical and strategic advisory to Senior Management and Country Teams to maximize impact and improve the quality of Global Fund-supported programs across six major portfolios in West and Central Africa, including Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Ghana, and Mali. She also serves as a focal point for various programmatic and M&E aspects. Previously, Jo-Angeline led one of the world’s largest malaria grant portfolios managing over US$ 800M in investments and driving measurable reductions in child and malaria mortality rates.
Jo-Angeline's career spans key roles with Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), FHI360, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and The Global Fund supporting disease programs, health systems strengthening, and grant oversight across sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Global Health from Yale University and has completed executive leadership training at Yale School of Management and McKinsey & Company.
She is fluent in English and Swahili and is a frequent speaker on Global Health topics and advocate for data-driven, inclusive, and sustainable health solutions. She is recognized for her thought leadership, notably serving on the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Exemplars in Global Health project on Malaria on Subnational Tailoring by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, supported by Gates Foundation and Gates Ventures and as a board member of the Ifakara Foundation.
She has represented The Global Fund at numerous external forums in global health issues and has been instrumental in mobilizing resources and advocating for impactful global health investments. Her current role involves providing technical and strategic advisory to Senior Management and Country Teams to maximize impact and improve the quality of Global Fund-supported programs across six major portfolios in West and Central Africa, including Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Ghana, and Mali. She also serves as a focal point for various programmatic and M&E aspects. Previously, Jo-Angeline led one of the world’s largest malaria grant portfolios managing over US$ 800M in investments and driving measurable reductions in child and malaria mortality rates.
Jo-Angeline's career spans key roles with Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), FHI360, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and The Global Fund supporting disease programs, health systems strengthening, and grant oversight across sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Global Health from Yale University and has completed executive leadership training at Yale School of Management and McKinsey & Company.
She is fluent in English and Swahili and is a frequent speaker on Global Health topics and advocate for data-driven, inclusive, and sustainable health solutions. She is recognized for her thought leadership, notably serving on the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Exemplars in Global Health project on Malaria on Subnational Tailoring by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, supported by Gates Foundation and Gates Ventures and as a board member of the Ifakara Foundation.
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