Barbara O'hanlon BA, MPP

Barbara O’Hanlon is a recognized leader in international health policy and implementation with over 24 years experience in advocacy and strategic communication to create favorable policy environments for key health issues. In the last 7 years, Ms. O’Hanlon has focused her professional work on building the evidence that demonstrates the benefits of partnering with the private health sector to achieve public health objectives. During this period, she has conducted 13 private sector assessments spanning Eastern Europe, Central Asia, African and Latin America and has written extensively on the size and scope of the private health sector in Africa. Ms. O’Hanlon’s has worked in multiple African countries to build Ministries of Health capacity to steward the private health sector.
She helps Ministries create a policy and legal framework to partner with the private sector, draft a PPP Strategy, establish a PPP Unit, and train ministry staff in new skill areas needed to engage the private health sector. Based on her extensive private sector experience, she written several articles and guidelines to assess the private health sector assessment, to facilitate public-private dialogue, and develop health policy framework leverage the private sector. Ms. Ms. O’Hanlon is the president and chief executive officer of O’Hanlon Health Consulting; a women and minority-owned small business with a wide range of clients including USAID, IFC, the World Bank, Care International and private pharmaceutical companies.