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One of our major jobs at R4D is as a facilitator, helping our country counterparts to move forward policy and achieve some desired result. If you don’t treat your work as a process, you can get stuck on a product and can’t move forward what you set out to achieve.”

Danielle Bloom is a senior global health professional with more than 10 years of experience in health financing, systems strengthening and institutional reform including significant time spent living and working in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Currently a fellow, Ms. Bloom contributes to the African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS) project, supporting country work in sub-Saharan Africa that advances universal health coverage goals. Before moving to Fellow status, Ms. Bloom was a deputy director for ACS, successfully designing and implementing the project in a way that built on R4D models and experience with nurturing multisectoral collaboration, joint learning and fostering accountability.

Other projects for which Ms. Bloom has provided expertise and formative thinking include R4D’s efforts around the donor transitions agenda, the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, and the USAID-funded Health Finance and Governance program in Ghana.

Ms. Bloom is also currently a senior health financing specialist at the World Bank where she supports the Joint Learning Network’s Revisiting Health Financing Technical Initiative.

Before joining R4D, Ms. Bloom was a senior program manager at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, where she managed a health financing program across five countries in sub-Saharan Africa, securing a second wave of program funding which allowed expansion to three new countries. As a senior manager at the development company Chemonics, she supported numerous new business and program management efforts in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and was a manager on the West and Central Africa new business team. Before that, Ms. Bloom worked as a program coordinator on the Center for Global Development health team where she managed teams on the UNAIDS leadership transition, the role of the private sector in health care and performance incentives. She also spent time in Tanzania working for the University of Toronto’s Center for International Health where she launched the organizations collaboration with the University of Dar es Salaam and designed and secured funding for the first regional HIV/AIDS workshop between universities. In South Africa, Ms. Bloom spent time interning at both the Ministry of Health and Treatment Action Campaign, an AIDS advocacy organization.

Other experience includes policy analysis for the then-new ministry of health promotion in her native Canada, where Ms. Bloom led formative research and design for the provinces’ injury prevention campaign and Aboriginal mental health portfolios.

Ms. Bloom holds an MSc in international health policy from the London School of Economics and a BSc in psychology and neuroscience from the University of Western Ontario. She speaks English and French.

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