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Meredith Kimball is a health systems specialist with more than 10 years of experience working with global and country level partners. Ms. Kimball focuses on the intersection of health systems, quality, and measurement.

As a fellow at Results for Development Ms. Kimball leads engagements within R4D’s primary health care, health systems and data use portfolios of work. Her primary role is as R4D’s lead on the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, which brings together country policymakers, health system managers, practitioners, advocates and other development partners to catalyze improvements in primary health care in low- and middle-income countries through better measurement and knowledge-sharing. PHCPI was launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and the WHO, in partnership with Ariadne Labs and Results for Development.

Ms. Kimball also facilitates the Joint Learning Network Measurement for Improvement collaborative, which aims to co-develop practical tools and approaches to support country policymakers, health system managers, and frontline providers to effectively use data for primary health care improvement.

During her time at R4D, Ms. Kimball has focused on universal health coverage from both the financing and service delivery angles. Meredith has previously played key roles in the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, the Center for Health Market Innovations, the Systems for Health initiative, and the Maternal and Child Survival Program.

Throughout her career, Ms. Kimball has made significant contributions to new ways of thinking about these topics, including:

  • Novel framework for understanding the relationship between health microinsurance and universal health coverage
  • The role of health financing institutions in the delivery of quality health services
  • The measurement and use of data within primary health care system improvements

Prior to her work at R4D, Ms. Kimball worked as a program manager in the Low- and Middle-Income Countries portfolio at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She provided support to IHI’s Project Fives Alive! Program, which aimed to reduce under-five mortality in Ghana. She contributed to early thinking on the role of quality in low and middle-income countries, which has influenced current efforts to adapt the seminal Crossing the Quality Chasm report to low and middle-income settings.

Additionally, Ms. Kimball worked as a research assistant at the Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research where she studied trends in allied health workforce. She also worked as a summer associate with USAID/Indonesia where she helped to design a new initiative focused on maternal and child health.

Ms. Kimball holds an AB from Princeton University as well as an MS in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a native English speaker and is conversant in French. She recently relocated to Seattle, Washington where she is pursuing her PhD in Global Health Implementation Science.

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