Bio
Dr. Claire Chaumont is a global health systems and policy expert, currently working with the World Health Organization to spearhead its Triple Billion targets, WHO's new strategy to improve the health of billions by 2025. As part of a new strategic team, she strives to increase WHO's impact at country level, through a sustained focus on results, priority-setting, implementation and delivery. As the Healthier Populations Billion Lead, she drives engagement across all organizational levels for factors influencing health, such as water and sanitation, air quality, nutrition, alcohol or tobacco.
She joins the World Health Organization from the END Fund, a fast-growing private philanthropic initiative focused on neglected tropical diseases. At the END Fund she was the founding director of the Program Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation team and oversaw all activities designed to better understand the organization’s impact. Prior to this role, she was a Research Director at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, where, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she co-designed, implemented, and published results from a landmark HIV costing analysis across 500 health facilities in five African countries. Additionally, she has served as technical consultant and advisor to many international organizations, including UNFPA, Ariadne Labs, The Palladium Group, the Global Fund and MIT. Claire started her career as a management consultant, helping hospitals in France and the United Kingdom improve the quality and efficiency of their services.
A Fulbright Scholar, Claire received her Doctorate in public health from Harvard University, a Master in health policy planning and financing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Master in international business from Sciences Po Paris. She currently teaches Fundamental Concepts of Public Health to DrPH students at the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health.