Beth Kreling is a Senior Policy Fellow in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Health. She is currently co-PI of the newly established African Health Observatory Platform on Health Systems and Policies (AHOP) and Deputy Chair of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s Global Health Initiative (GHI), an interdepartmental research unit.
Beth has a background in international development and consultancy, with a regional focus on Africa and India. She has always worked at the nexus of research and policy, coordinating numerous multi-country research, development and consultancy projects both at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and previously. Whilst at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ she has worked across ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Health's global health portfolio, has established and manages the GHI, and supports a range of projects including leading a multi-partner, EU funded, public-private initiative Big Data for Better Outcomes.
Beth is currently the operational lead for the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ team working on the African Health Observatory Platform (AHOP). Hosted by the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), AHOP leverages existing national and regional collaborations to form a network of National Centres that currently include leading research institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal. AHOP draws on support from a technical consortium including the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and national, regional and global partners.
Before joining ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Beth worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Health and Education Unit, engaging with stakeholders across Commonwealth governments, inter-governmental organisations and NGOs on education policy priorities. She continues to write occasionally on Commonwealth education topics. Prior to this she was Chief Operating Officer of education NGO Link Community Development International, where she oversaw operations and programme development in the UK and across five sub-Saharan African offices. Before moving into the development sphere, Beth spent a number of years as a political and economic risk consultant for strategy consultancy Oxford Analytica. She began her professional career in publishing as Assistant Editor for Pavilion and Collins & Brown.
External affiliations
Editorial Board Member, Round Table, Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs
Honorary Secretary, Commonwealth Consortium for Education