Post-COVID donor retrenchment, drastic cuts to global health financing, and the restructuring of major philanthropic and multilateral actors are colliding with longstanding structural weaknesses, including underinvestment in global health systems. The question facing the sector is no longer whether the architecture will change, but who gets to shape that change and on what terms.
Kinaura Partners invites you to a 60-minute webinar exploring this transition through the lens of a five-actor framework structuring the global health system today. Anchored by Kinaura’s forthcoming paper on navigating the global health architecture shift, the session brings a small panel of practitioners into moderated conversation, testing the paper’s analysis against firsthand experience rather than presenting it as settled conclusion. The discussion will center on the trends reshaping the system through 2035, including shifting donor funding and the recalibration of major philanthropic actors, and on what a deliberate transition looks like in practice, with particular emphasis on African and continent-based voices and country ownership. Join us on July 28 for a conversation grounded in the realities practitioners are navigating right now. Register in the link below.
Speaker Bios
Edwige Fortier, Deputy Director, Global Health Multilateral Ecosystems I Gates Foundation
Edwige Fortier is Deputy Director, Global Health Multilateral Ecosystems at the Gates Foundation, where she leads integrated advocacy, communications, and resource mobilization strategies across major global health institutions, including the Global Fund, Gavi, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and the Global Financing Facility. She established and leads a cross-functional team that brings together advocacy, communications, and financing efforts to strengthen alignment across the global health multilateral ecosystem. In 2025, she helped mobilize $24 billion in financing for global health impact and continues to advance partnerships, policy change, and ecosystem reform to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of global health investments.
Brian Li Han Wong, Senior Coordinator & Strategic Advisor I Accra Reset Initiative
Brian Li Han Wong is a global public health expert, entrepreneur, and interdisciplinary researcher focused on digital health, global health diplomacy and governance, health financing, primary health care, workforce development, and pandemic preparedness and response. He is Senior Coordinator and Strategic Advisor with the Accra Reset Initiative, a consultant with PMNCH and the PHAS project at Peking University, a UNICEF global thought leadership fellow, an advisor for Baraka Impact Finance, and an advisor to health technology start-ups. He founded LonWHO, the UK’s first ModelWHO simulation, and UK Model WHO to expand youth engagement in global health policy, advocacy, and diplomacy.
Rosemary Mburu, Executive Director I WACI Health
Rosemary Mburu is Executive Director of WACI Health and a global development expert advancing equitable, resilient, and people-centered health systems across Africa and globally. Her work spans global health architecture reform, health financing, governance, community leadership, and strategic partnerships. She co-leads the HEAR CSO Consortium on Global Health Architecture Reform and is a member of the Health Works Leaders Coalition, contributing to efforts to strengthen primary health care, health financing, workforce resilience, and regulatory systems. She has served on international advisory bodies and national steering committees in Kenya and was recently appointed to the National Task Force on Ebola Preparedness and Response, linking global policy to national implementation. In 2026, TIME100 Health recognized her for advancing African leadership and global health equity.
Megan Fotheringham, Global Health and Infectious Disease Senior Advisor
Megan Fotheringham, MPP, MPH, is a senior global health leader with more than 20 years of experience advancing infectious disease, malaria, health systems, and global health security programs. She most recently served as Deputy Director of USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, Office of Infectious Disease, where she helped oversee USAID’s malaria and infectious disease portfolios, shaped strategy for an approximately $2 billion annual portfolio, and represented the Agency in National Security Council–convened forums on global health security and outbreak response. Her work bridges policy, financing, evidence translation, and implementation across donor, multilateral, and country program settings.
Alex Harris (Moderator), Director, Global Health Advisor
Alex Harris is a global public health advisor with more than 20 years’ experience shaping strategy, policy, advocacy, and partnerships across government, non-profit, private-sector, and philanthropic organisations. He formerly led the diplomacy and partnerships functions, as well as the European office, at Wellcome, where he oversaw a global team responsible for building the external knowledge, networks, and partnerships needed to ensure health research delivers benefits for people around the world. His work has advanced global health priorities including climate and health, infectious disease, mental health, and pandemic preparedness and response, with a focus on strengthening engagement with governments, multilateral agencies, the private sector, and civil society. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he played a leadership role in Wellcome’s response, including its contribution to the Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator and efforts to promote equitable access for low- and middle-income countries. He has also contributed to the Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Goal 3, helped found the Future of Global Health Initiatives project, and continues to support organisations in developing the strategies, policies, and partnerships needed to improve health worldwide.
Resources
The Present and Future of the Global Health Architecture: Navigating a System in Transition: Kinaura Partners Report
