Toby Kasper, MPA

Toby Kasper has been involved in public health and international development issues for more than twenty years, both in the field and in headquarters roles.  He has played a key role in setting up a number of global health institutions, including serving as one of the first staff for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Global Financing Facility for Every Woman Every Child, and Médecins Sans Frontières in South Africa.  He has also held senior positions at Population Services International, UNFPA, and UNAIDS, and as a consultant focusing on strategy has advised numerous international institutions (including the World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, UNAIDS, Unitaid, the Pandemic Fund, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the Global Partnership for Education, and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership) and foundations (including the Bill and Melinda Gates and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation).

Over the course of his career, Toby has worked extensively on strategic planning, results-based management/monitoring and evaluation, health financing (including innovative financing mechanisms), translating evidence into policy, and resource allocation and country selection.  His technical areas of expertise include health systems strengthening, primary health care, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and climate and health.

Toby holds a Bachelor’s of Arts from Harvard University and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.  He has published internationally in journals such as The Lancet, BMJ Global Health, AIDS, and AIDS and Behavior, and in the recent Cambridge University Press volume Making Health Systems Work in Low and Middle Income Countries, Siddiqi S et al. (eds.), 2023.