Aparna Kamath is a Senior Portfolio Manager with Grand Challenges Canada’s Global Health Innovation team, where she focuses on advancing investments and partnerships across the Maternal and Newborn Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and the OPTions portfolios.  

Aparna has over a decade of experience in global health, including impact investing, strategy and fundraising, program design and management, and technical assistance across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Prior to Grand Challenges Canada, Aparna was with the Clinton Health Access Initiative where she was responsible for a portfolio of programs with policymakers across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to design and implement public health insurance reforms and improve efficiency and effectiveness in health budgets and spending. Before that, at the Results for Development Institute, Aparna provided strategic and technical guidance on delivering a total market approach to social franchise networks for sexual and reproductive health services in East Africa.  

Aparna holds a Master’s degree in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences and International Relations from Smith College.