Samy Ahmar

Samy Ahmar is the Head of Global Health in Save the Children UK. He leads a diverse team of global health specialists who help design and deliver a global portfolio of health programmes and research projects in over 20 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. They also help shift the needle on major global health policy issues across reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health issues. These childhood pneumonia, care for premature and low birth-weight babies, under-immunisation, maternal mental health, improving equity in community health workers programmes and policies, and comprehensive diarrhoea control, among many others. Samy has worked extensively on partnerships with the private sector, especially in the pharmaceutical sector, over nearly a decade