Divya Nair

Dr. Divya Nair is Chief Technical Officer at Last Mile Health. She serves to provide executive oversight of the Health Systems Strengthening team and the Global Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning team. These teams together provide technical support for the work in Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone. Among other roles, Divya is tasked with developing a shared technical vision for how community health systems can consistently deliver care in remote communities at scale, at quality, and sustainably.

Prior to Last Mile Health, Divya has worked with governments, multilaterals, NGOs, and donors for over 15 years to improve evidence-informed decision-making. She’s worked with the World Bank in Washington DC, IFAD in Rome, and the Institute for Health Policy in Colombo. Most recently, as Director at IDinsight in New Delhi over the last six years, Divya led several high-impact engagements, managed diverse teams, and designed and executed collaborations to support data-driven programming and policy. Clients included key institutions in national and state governments and several transformative NGOs. Divya oversaw the conceptualization of these technology partnerships and deployed a range of analytical tools to drive toward higher social impact.