Alanna Shaikh

Alanna Shaikh is a co-founding principal consultant of the strategic advisory firm Tomorrow Global, LLC. A health systems strengthening expert with more than twenty years of experience in global health work, primarily outside the United States, Shaikh has worked for global health donors and implementers including USAID, the U.S. Department of State, Abt Associates, and International Medical Corps. She holds an MPH from Boston University and currently resides in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 

Ignoring the science on social distancing, not congregating indoors, and wearing masks, young people listen to U.S. President Donald J. Trump at the Dream City Church in Phoenix on June 23, 2020. The photo shows a huge crowd of yound people, very few wearing masks, packed into theater-like seats. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Governance

Why Global Health is Missing its Moment

by Jessica Pickett, Alanna Shaikh

The field has always been political, but our refusal to engage as such has sidelined experts just as they're most needed