Latifat Okara

Latifat is the Principal for Health Policy and Insights for the Americas at Economist Impact. She collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to lead and deliver high-quality, evidence-based research and health policy analysis initiatives that span the global health ecosystem's public and private sectors. Latifat has diverse experience in health policy and systems, working in Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific Island regions in projects that combine technical research, systems thinking, organizational strategy, and high-level stakeholder engagements on multi-level health initiatives designed to improve population-level impact. Latifat is recognized for her authorship and contribution to impactful publications in the British Medical Journal. She has authored thought-provoking discussion papers on critical topics such as maternal nutrition, nutrition financing, primary health care systems measurement and enhancement, and non-communicable disease prevention and management. Latifat's accomplishments have earned her recognition, including being named in the New York City Daily as a Boston Congress of Public Health 40 under 40 Winner. Latifat holds a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is a Doctor of Public Health candidate in Health Policy and Leadership at Loma Linda.