The 2025 call for IHP Correspondents was released as part of the IHP Network initiative to provide an opportunity to young researchers and other change agents from different regions and continents to contribute to the global health policy & HPSR discourse and participate in setting the agenda, by sharing their ideas and opinions in the form of blogs and featured articles. There are 10 correspondents in total this year.
Denise Michela Milice (MD, MPH) is a Researcher and Head of the unit of communication and scientific events at Instituto Nacional de Saúde-Mozambique.
Emmanuel Benyeogor is a Nigerian epidemiologist, a 2024 Emerging Voices (EV) Fellow, and a 2025 Planetary Health Alliance Impact Fellow. A doctoral candidate at Nagasaki University, Japan, he specializes in public health, planetary health, and nature-based solutions. At the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), he led technology and communication initiatives, contributing to the establishment of a national and subnational network of Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOCs) and strengthening health security systems globally. Emmanuel focuses on leveraging the LEAP approach in healthcare delivery and advancing sustainable development through alternative impact funding streams.
Fatuma Guleid is PhD fellow at the Health economics research unit, KEMRI-Wellcome trust research Programme in Nairobi Kenya. Her research is focused on health policy making and the processes that facilitate the use of evidence to strengthen health systems.
Ibrahim Kamara is a medical doctor, public health specialist, and research scientist with 12 years of experience in clinical medicine and public health. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Sierra Leone, a Master of Science in International Public Health and a Postgraduate diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and a Master of Science in Clinical Trials from Oxford University. He works with the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone as a Child and Adolescent Health Technical Officer, and supports the Ministry of Health and other health partners in the development and implementation of policies, strategies, and guidelines to improve the health and wellbeing of children in Sierra Leone and beyond. Ibrahim envisages a world where children will not only survive but thrive and be part of the transformative agenda. He thinks globally and acts locally and believes in the principle of evidence-based decision-making with a local context lens.
Manya Sachdeva is a Public Health Professional specializing in mental health integration, dedicated to bridging gaps between mental health and policy to ensure equitable, inclusive, and accessible care for all.
Rajeev B R is a DBT Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru ( https://www.indiaalliance.org/fellow/rajeev )
Sherifath is a public health researcher from Benin with a strong interest in nutrition, climate health, and immunization. She is passionate about improving healthcare access in Africa and works in research and program management, advocating for evidence-based solutions to enhance health outcomes.
Shiferaw is a medical doctor with a Master’s in clinical trials. He is passionate about health systems, global health, and clinical research. Dr. Shiferaw is working at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and is an active member of the national SURGE team as well as the African Volunteers of Health Corps (AVoHC). He is the founder of the Ethiopian Clinical Research Association. Additionally, he was selected as a changemaker for the International AIDS Society Vaccine Enterprise Program and is a member of the International AIDS Society. Dr. Shiferaw is also an alumnus of the Emerging Voices for Global Health 2024 cohort. Currently, he is a WHO/TDR Clinical Research Leadership Fellow 2025 at the International Vaccine Institute.
Soe Yu is an EV4GH 2024, Project Manager and PhD Candidate at ITM-Utrecht University.
Teresa Santos is a research assistant at the department of global and public health at Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden). With a strong background in economics, Teresa’s research focuses on health economics within implementation science, through the development of cost-effectiveness analyses of public health interventions and the optimization of implementation strategies from a health economic point of view. Teresa is passionate about using health economics to prove the benefit of preventive interventions across different public health areas, and is currently working in the fields of tuberculosis, maternal health, and obesity prevention. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-santos-06b53715a/