Global Health Solutions with Local Relevance
Matahari is a global health research and policy group working on integrating Global South expertise in global health initiatives.
What we do
The Team behind Matahari
We are a team of experts across the global health world, working to deliver sustainable global health solutions informed and led with Global South expertise.
Our diverse and multilingual team works closely together to bring local relevance to complex global health conundrums – creating visibility, long-term impact, and value to our clients.
Dr Fifa Rahman
Principal Consultant
Charles Ebikeme
Associate Consultant: Health Systems
Gisa Dang
Associate Consultant: Health and Human Rights
Dr Pedro Villardi
Associate Consultant: Public Health and Intellectual Property - Brazil
Dr Claudia Stoicescu
Technical Advisor: Harm Reduction
Sam Acellam
Associate Consultant: Health Data Analytics
Dr Marguerite Massinga Loembé PhD
Senior Consultant: Health Systems Strengthening
Our Clients and Partners
Our Projects
A few of our recent projects
Supporting the development of a continental response to health workforce in Africa
- July 2025
- We provided support to the African continent's regional body for health to develop a continental compact for health workforce development. This involved an extensive scoping review of all 55 African Union Member States, and triangulation of desk review findings through in-person and virtual consultation with health workforce directorates and professional associations. We found extensive shortages, particularly among the medical specialist cadre, and a lack of clear and harmonised career development pathways for key cadres, including laboratory workforce and midwives.
A comparative assessment of decolonial philanthropy in women’s and children’s health
- January 2025
- We supported the Lancet Commission for Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health in an in-depth analysis of 13 philanthropies in women and children’s health, selected from an initial list of 54 philanthropic organisations drawn from the OECD Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD). The analysis utilized the Elevate Children Funders Group Framework to Decolonise Philanthropy, which differentiates individual, relational, and ideological approaches to decolonization of grantmaking.
Highlighting community successes in UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets
- July 2024
- From the work on tireless indigenous leaders in hard-to-reach areas of Perú, to a supportive centre for LGBTQIA people in Zimbabwe, communities are working across the globe to ensure that their countries reach the 95-95-95 targets. We worked with regional UNAIDS offices to highlight community initiatives (and their sacrifices) and up the pressure on reforms that could accelerate target achievement.
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Community-led monitoring data can be critical to ensuring robust and timely PPPR interventions. Whether it is communities reporting unexplained animal deaths or interruptions to HIV medications due to lockdowns - good CLM systems can help better PPPR in the future.
📌WEBINAR Integrating Pandemic Preparedness & Response in Community-led Monitoring Mechanisms
📅 April 24, 2025 (Thurs)
⌚17:00-19:00 Bangkok / 10:00-12:00 GMT / 12:00-14:00 CET
Register 👉 https://bit.ly/42kOfdX
PLUS: Look out for our CLM-PPR toolkit with @MatahariGlobal
MPOX has been declared a public health emergency of regional concern by @AfricaCDC. According to @EliaBadjo of @CosamedD, Matahari’s local partner in DRC, “Medicines, adequate care, access to testing are lacking in the community."
https://matahari.global/insight/understanding-local-and-global-challenges-to-the-mpox-outbreak/
Insights
Our latest posts
Impacts of US funding withdrawal on tuberculosis
- October 2025
Impacts du retrait des financements américains sur la tuberculose
- October 2025
Understanding local and global challenges to the MPOX outbreak
- September 2024