Rahima Dosani spent the last five years at USAID's Global Health Bureau, where she worked as a Senior Advisor in the Center for Innovation and Impact (CII). At USAID, Rahima focused on increasing market access to innovative global health commodities, including medicines, diagnostics, vaccines, and new service delivery approaches. She used cross-cutting approaches to improve supply and demand barriers to market access, including digital health, human-centered design, private sector engagement, innovative financing, market shaping, and strategic planning. Rahima also served as the Director for Programs on the COVID-19 Task Force in 2020 and was asked to spend six months as a Senior Health Advisor for USAID's Asia Regional Bureau in 2021 to improve COVID vaccine delivery and strategic partnerships.

Rahima has also worked extensively to improve DEIA at an organization-wide level as well as more broadly in the field of global health. She launched USAID's decolonization in global health work, was a founding member of the Global Health Bureau's Anti-Discrimination Council, developed CII's DEIA strategy, and co-authored a white paper on decolonization in global health.

Prior to joining USAID, Rahima was a strategy and management consultant working across a range of industries and countries. She worked at FSG, a social impact consulting firm, where she advised large global health and development organizations on strategy, DEIA, and partnerships. She also worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Malawi, where she led programs to accelerate the introductions of new vaccines into the country and also the scale up of point-of-care diagnostics for HIV. Rahima helped launch CHAI's office in Myanmar, where she led programs for MDR-TB diagnostics and pediatric HIV. She began her career as a management consultant for public sector and healthcare organizations at PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory in New York City. Rahima holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPH in Global Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a BA, summa cum laude, in GlobalHealth and Healthcare Management from the University of Pennsylvania.

On a personal level, Rahima is passionate about creating art, performing spoken word, playing volleyball, and teaching yoga. She has also worked as a private chef. Rahima has lndian, Pakistani, and Kenyan roots and has lived and worked in many countries in the Global South. She is extremely excited to join the GHV family.