Miriam Temin Author

Amanda Glassman is vice president for programs, director of global health policy, and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, leading work on priority-setting, resource allocation and value for money in global health, with a particular interest in vaccination. She has 20 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Prior to her current position, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led health economics and financing knowledge products and policy dialogue with member countries, designed the results-based grant program Salud Mesoamerica 2015 and served as team leader for conditional cash transfer programs such as Mexico’s Oportunidades and Colombia’s Familias en Accion.

Miriam Temin is project director for the Building Capacity for DREAMS Girl Platforms at the Population Council. She has nearly 20 years of experience developing strategies and advising on policies for donors, United Nations agencies, think tanks, and NGOs in the United States, Africa, and Europe. Temin is an expert on adolescent girls, sexual and reproductive health, social determinants of health, HIV, and social protection. Prior to joining the Council, Temin served as a consultant to the Center for Global Development. She has also been a consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she was a lead writer for The Lancet/Harvard Women and Health Commission report on the interplay between women’s health and caregiving roles, and worked at UNICEF and the UK’s Department for International Development.