Since 2003, the global ExpandNet network has been working to catalyze a paradigm shift towards more systematic, country-owned and locally-led scaling processes. ExpandNet members have been developing scaling-related guidance tools and providing technical support to advance the scale up of successfully tested interventions across a range of technical areas. Now with decades of practical country experience in the application of the guidance tools developed with WHO, both within and beyond the health sector, ExpandNet has turned to large-scale dissemination of learnings through its forthcoming Scale-up Learning Center (SLC) platform. The SLC is intended to make scaling knowledge accessible worldwide, for all professionals working across global health and development.
Join us for this year’s Health Working Group session where we will:
– Highlight country experience from Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan
– Introduce the new SLC curriculum and platform
– Explore how scaling knowledge can strengthen real-world outcomes
Depuis 2003, le réseau mondial ExpandNet travaille à catalyser pour un changement de paradigme vers des processus de mise à l’échelle plus systématisés, avec une meilleure appropriation par les pays et, utilisant une expertise locale. Les membres d’ExpandNet développent des outils d’orientation sur la mise à l’échelle et fournissent un appui technique afin de favoriser l’expansion d’interventions éprouvées dans divers domaines techniques.
Avec plusieurs décennies d’expérience pratique dans l’application d’outils d’orientation développés avec l’OMS aussi bien dans le secteur de la santé qu’au-delà, ExpandNet se consacre désormais à une large diffusion de ces enseignements à travers sa nouvelle plateforme, le Scale-up Learning Center (SLC). Le SLC vise à rendre les connaissances sur la mise à l’échelle accessibles pour tous les professionnels travaillant dans les domaines de la santé mondiale et du développement.
Rejoignez-nous à la session du Groupe de travail sur la santé de cette année, au cours de laquelle nous :
– mettrons en lumière des expériences du Kenya, du Nigéria et du Pakistan,
– présenterons le nouveau curriculum et la nouvelle plateforme du SLC,
– explorerons comment les connaissances sur la mise à l’échelle peuvent renforcer concrètement les résultats sur le terrain.
Tendai Gotora
Director of Programs
Spark Health Africa
Bio
Tendai Gotora is a public health expert with over 13 years of experience in public health systems strengthening, public sector scaling of innovations, and transformative leadership development across East and Southern Africa. He is currently the Director of Programs at Spark Health Africa where he leads Spark Health Africa’s transformative capacity-building programs.
With training in classical population demographic estimation methods, Tendai’s expertise lies in designing and implementing large-scale, multisectoral public health initiatives, leveraging data-driven decision-making, and fostering government-led scaling approaches through mindset shift based on the principles of transformative leadership, collective impact, and the scaling of innovations in the public health sector.
Ginette Hounkanrin
Senior Manager, SRHR – Health Systems and Services
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
Bio
A global health leader with nearly 20 years of experience designing, implementing, and—critically—scaling high-impact public health programmes across West and Central Africa, Dr Ginette Hounkanrin brings together deep programmatic expertise, systems thinking, and strategic leadership to drive complex initiatives in highly constrained settings. She has strong experience structuring, managing, and scaling diverse country portfolios, with a particular focus on institutionalising innovations and embedding them within national systems.
She currently serves as Senior Manager, SRHR – Health Systems and Services at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), where she oversees investments across West and Central Africa, with a particular focus on the Sahel. In this role, she leads large-scale performance and impact optimisation through rigorous cost analysis, cost-driver management, and the identification of technically sound strategies to maximise results. She works closely with implementing partners and governments to design, negotiate, monitor, and institutionalise models with strong scale-up potential.
Previously, she served as Country Director for Pathfinder International in Burkina Faso, where she played a leading role in the design and delivery of national programmes, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and the expansion of proven approaches. In her earlier regional leadership roles on AYSRHR programmes, she operationalised the ExpandNet framework and tools to strengthen scale-up thinking, shift strategic mindsets, and support scale-up efforts across several Francophone West African countries.
Her long-standing commitment to scaling has led her to actively contribute to advancing knowledge and practice around the ExpandNet framework through capacity-building support to organisations and country programmes. Throughout her career, Dr Hounkanrin has worked at global, regional, and national levels to provide strategic advice to public authorities and civil society organisations on health systems strengthening and sustainable scale-up strategies.
She is an active member of several global advisory groups, including the ExpandNet Advisory Council, the Technical Advisory Group of Family Planning High Impact Practices, and the Advisory Council of the Ouagadougou Partnership.
Laura Ghiron
ExpandNet Secretariat Member; President of Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access and Co-Chair of the CoP’s Health Technical Working Group
ExpandNet Secretariat
Bio
Laura has served on ExpandNet’s Secretariat (expandnet.net) since its founding in 2003, helping shape the development of global scaling guidance, publications, and technical assistance to governments, NGOs, donors and more. For more than 25 years, she has worked across Asia, Africa and Latin America to advance the scaling of women’s health and broader public health and development interventions.
Laura earned her Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan, where she later served as a Senior Research Specialist for twelve years before co-founding the US-based 501(c)3 non-profit Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access. Partners was established to steward and support ExpandNet’s global work.
As the President of Partners, Laura directs a five-year (2022-2027) Gates Foundation-funded initiative to strengthen global scaling capacity in partnership with ExpandNet’s global Advisory Council, a group of senior leaders from across the health and development sectors. A central component of this effort is the forthcoming Scale-up Learning Center (SLC), an open-access, online curriculum and collaboration platform grounded in WHO/ExpandNet guidance and practical country experience.
The SLC equips implementers worldwide with structured, practice-based learning across the full scaling trajectory–from early stage testing of an intervention package, to developing a scale-up strategy, to strategically managing scale-up for sustainable impact. Through this work, Laura continues to advance the science and practice of scaling what works.
Haris Ahmed
Director of Health
Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan
Bio
Dr. Haris Ahmed is a senior public health leader with over 30 years of experience in health systems strengthening, sexual and reproductive health, and the systematic scaling-up of proven health interventions in Pakistan. He currently serves as Director Health at Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan. He is the Founder of The Scaling-up Accelerators (TSA), an affiliate of ExpandNet, and an ExpandNet Secretariat member and Master Trainer. Dr. Ahmed has led major donor-funded initiatives supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO, Packard Foundation, WHO, and UN agencies, introducing innovative approaches to improve maternal, newborn, and child health.
Since introducing the ExpandNet/WHO Science of Scaling-up to Pakistan in 2014, Dr. Ahmed has led multiple large-scale applications of the framework. As Chief of Party for the SUKH Initiative, he embedded scaling-up principles from the outset, working with Sindh’s Health and Population Welfare Departments to institutionalize high-impact practices. These included Family Health Days, task-shifting of first-dose injectable contraception to Lady Health Workers, mother–daughter counselling within the Sindh LHW Program, life-skills–based education in secondary schools, the national introduction of WHO’s premarital counselling model Aghaaz, and the scaling of post-partum family planning guidelines. Several of these interventions were subsequently scaled province-wide and integrated into routine service delivery systems.
Dr. Ahmed has also institutionalized scaling-up capacity through academia, introducing scaling-up courses for MSPH students at the Health Services Academy Islamabad, SZABIST Karachi, and Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Beyond program leadership, he serves on the Boards of the Forum for Women Development and Research and ACT International.
Chipo Mupure
Chief Operating Officer
Spark Health Africa
Bio
Based in Harare, Zimbabwe, Chipo Mupure currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Spark Health Africa. Chipo’s career spans more than 15 years of practicing transformative and systems thinking at strategic levels in sub-Saharan Africa, primarily in public health to drive transformation of African health systems. She has worked with senior level ministry of health officials in Malawi, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Lesotho to design quality improvement programs in various areas including PMTCT (prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV), MNCH and supply chain management and implement them through consultative processes at subnational levels.
Passionate about human asset development, she strongly believes that people inherently hold solutions to their challenges. Chipo has designed and implemented leadership and development programs, including the Management Development Institute (MDI) at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. She has dedicated most of her work life to empowering public sector health management teams to transform their mindsets, shift cultures and innovate through mentorship and coaching. Driven by the real possibilities of strengthening the health system through homegrown innovations using systems thinking, she has also focused on bringing together multiple stakeholders to deliberately collaborate towards a common agenda.
Chipo is also passionate about the science of scaling to achieve sustainable impact. She provides capacity building and technical assistance in scaling innovations in the public sector using the ExpandNet/WHO tools and approaches. She facilitated the development of scaling strategies for improving Early Childhood Development outcomes of seven county teams in Kenya. She also provided technical assistance to the Lake Region Economic Bloc Secretariat in reviewing and strengthening their scale up strategy.
Chipo Mupure presently serves on the board of Spark Health Africa. She also sits on ExpandNet’s advisory council and provides thought partnership as a member of the task team for the development of ExpandNet’s Scaling Learning Centre.
Sada Danmusa
Lead Technical Advisor on Public Health and Nutrition
Office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Bio
Dr. Sada Danmusa is a physician and public health practitioner with over 25 years of experience in health systems leadership, technical assistance, and the scale-up of evidence-based interventions across Nigeria’s government, private, and non-profit sectors.
He currently leads a Nigeria-based technical assistance and consulting organization that supports government institutions and development partners to design and institutionalize scalable solutions in family planning, primary health care, and nutrition. As part of this work, he advances the science and practice of scale among Gates Foundation grantees and government counterparts through his organization’s role as the Nigeria ExpandNet Affiliate Organization. He also oversees a real-time scaling lab documenting and facilitating the national scale-up of a tiered accreditation system enabling drug shops to deliver expanded FP and PHC services, in partnership with Management Systems International (MSI), and supports the Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and Social Services to strengthen coordination for scaling FP High Impact Practices in collaboration with the FP2030 North, West and Central Africa (NWCA) Hub.
Dr. Danmusa also provides strategic support to the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria to advance national public health priorities. Previously, he worked with Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), UNICEF, Pathfinder International, and the Palladium, supporting large-scale MNCH, PMTCT, child survival, and FP programs across Nigeria. He has authored publications on scaling innovations in diverse contexts.
Pratima Musburger
Director of Programs and Operations
ExpandNet Secretariat
Bio
Pratima Musburger is a lawyer and public health practitioner who has dedicated her professional career to advancing programs and policies that reduce systemic barriers and increase access to critical resources and opportunities in both the United States and abroad. As a passionate advocate for children and families, Pratima has led numerous initiatives focused on ensuring that children and families have the support they need to thrive.
Pratima currently serves as Director of Programs and Operations for Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access (Partners), managing a variety of programmatic and operations activities, including the development of ExpandNet’s online learning platform, the Scale-up Learning Center. Prior to her tenure with Partners, Pratima served as Vice President of Programs at ChangeLab Solutions, leading multi-disciplinary teams that advanced innovative, equity-centered legal and policy solutions across a wide range of technical areas. Pratima also spent several years working at the State of Hawaii’s Department of Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, leading and implementing statewide, systems change initiatives focused on increasing access to mental health services for children and youth.
Dr. Mojisola Odeku MBBS, MPH, MBA, MCIoD, FMIC, CMC
Founder/Managing Consultant
Sustainable Health Consult Ltd
Bio
Dr Mojisola Odeku has been a longtime leader and champion in Nigeria’s reproductive health and health systems strengthening landscape, and a veteran public health physician with 35+ years of experience. In her roles at the Federal Ministry of Health, as the former Head of the Reproductive Health Program, Dr Odeku focused on safe motherhood, family planning, contraceptive logistics management, adolescent reproductive health, and gender issues. She has experience developing strategic plans, policy guidelines, advocacy, research and contraceptive logistic management systems for reproductive health programs. Dr Odeku was Project Director of Phases I and II of the Gates Foundation-funded Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI – 2009-2022) with the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communications Programs(JHUCCP), which envisioned scaling up proven family planning and reproductive health interventions and led a portfolio of scale-up interventions primed by JHUCCP. She has provided strategic direction as coordinator of the Government of Nigeria’s intervention projects in reproductive/maternal health with support from international foundations (MacArthur and Packard), multilateral agencies (UNFPA, UNICEF, World Bank and WHO) and bilateral agencies (USAID and JICA). In her role at the Gates Foundation, Seattle and Nigeria(2022-2025), she designed and managed innovative investments within the Policy Advocacy Communication workstream to deploy strategic country-level interventions in MNCH and Primary Health care at the last mile. Dr Odeku also serves on the executive board of notable national and international NGOs working groups in reproductive and population programs, such as the International Council on Management of Population programs (ICOMP), Advocacy Nigeria and the Association for Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria(AAFP). She chairs two NGO boards of trustees, namely Earth Blossoms Africa and RAPAC(a faith-based NGO), and serves as a member of a couple of other boards voluntarily. As a champion of systems strengthening for sustainability, she offers advisory and technical assistance to implementing partners and serves as a coach and mentor to a new generation of leaders within the public health community of practice.
