Marwa Ramadan

Marwa Ramadan is a public health physician and global health analytics specialist with over 10 years of experience supporting governments, multilateral agencies and partners to translate complex health data into actionable policy and program decisions. Her work focuses on health equity, health systems analytics, routine and survey data triangulation and evidence-informed design of primary health care and RMNCAH-N programs in low- and middle-income and fragile settings.

She holds a PhD in International Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with advanced training in health economics, risk sciences and public policy. She is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and an experienced monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning practitioner, with a strong focus on applied analytics, performance measurement and implementation-oriented evidence.

Dr Ramadan currently serves as Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Monash University Malaysia and consults for international organizations, including the World Bank Group, WHO and UNICEF, supporting the design, analysis and interpretation of health systems and service delivery data across partner countries. Her prior academic research focused on perinatal and reproductive health outcomes among immigrant and refugee populations, using advanced statistical and geospatial methods.

Dr Ramadan's research sits at the intersection of health equity, population health surveillance, and the routine information systems that health systems depend on to measure and improve care. Across this work she maintains a sustained focus on RMNCAH-N in low and middle income and conflict-affected settings. She is increasingly working on how digital food environments and climate exposures shape population health, linking these emerging determinants to longitudinal cohort and surveillance data.

Dr Ramadan provides technical advisory and analytical consulting to international organizations on health systems performance, results measurement, and the design and evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) programs, with an emphasis on low- and middle-income and fragile settings.

As Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Results Specialist with the Global Financing Facility (GFF) at the World Bank, she provides embedded support to the GFF Secretariat under the TRANSFORM 2030 strategy — building results frameworks and KPI architecture, strengthening routine data governance, and leading country analytics across partner countries including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. This work has ranged from HMIS and DHIS2 data-quality strengthening to facility survey design (FASTR) and LiST/Spectrum modelling.

She has also consulted for the World Health Organization on health systems analytics and RMNCAH measurement, and for UNICEF on evidence synthesis and scoping review methodology supporting joint monitoring and estimation.