Homie A. Razavi is the founder and managing director at the Center for Disease Analysis Foundation. Since 2008, Homie has led a team of epidemiologists and modellers to quantify the epidemiology of hepatitis, forecast the future disease burden and help countries/territories develop national strategies.
Ivane Gamkrelidze is a technical specialist at the Center for Disease Analysis. He works on developing parametric disease progression models, debugging existing models, developing and working with CDA databases, conducting analyses, and writing manuscripts and reports.
Prior to joining CDA, Ivane worked as a data and process coordinator at Bright by Three in Colorado, where he developed distribution and tracking systems for the organization’s statewide initiative aimed at encouraging parent-child interaction.
Ivane holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics from Amherst College.
Devin Razavi-Shearer is the Director of The Polaris Observatory at the Center for Disease Analysis Foundation (CDAF). As part of this role he continues his work on the Hepatitis B and Delta projects that he has been leading since their inception at the CDAF.
As the Supply Chain Manager of the Global Procurement Fund at the Center for Disease Analysis Foundation, Katie helps expand access to hepatitis treatment and diagnostics around the world.
She manages the global supply chain and works with international pharmaceutical and diagnostic manufacturers to bring affordable treatment and diagnostics to low and middle income countries/territories including Uzbekistan, Uganda, Fiji, Nepal, Myanmar, India, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Mongolia, Tanzania and Ghana. Her work as Supply Chain Manager of the Global Procurement Fund has been an integral part of the Uzbekistan Hepatitis Elimination Program (UHEP) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She attends meetings with international stakeholders, business leaders and community members to devise an effective hepatitis elimination program in Uzbekistan.
As an epidemiologist, Katie forecasts hepatitis B and hepatitis C disease burden in 28 countries/territories and collaborates with international public health experts to devise multiple methods to ease and eradicate disease burden. She also forecasts the economic impact of disease control and disease eradication strategies. Her work informs the development of public health policies around the world and serves as an integral part of the open-access hepatitis disease database known as the Polaris Observatory.
Katie holds a Master of Public Health in Leadership and Public Health Practice from the University of Colorado Anschutz.
Sarah Stone is the office manager at CDA Foundation. She is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of daily administrative functions and maintaining the financial integrity of the organization.
Samantha is a global health epidemiologist who collaborates with experts in global public health to estimate the burden and devise elimination strategies for hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Additionally, she develops and analyzes statistical models to delve deeper into the data available at CDA. Before joining CDA,
Carolyn is a global health epidemiologist who focuses on the disease burden and economic impact of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).
Dr. Shakhlo Yusupalieva currently is working as project manager for the pilot project “Elimination of viral hepatitis B and C in Tashkent, Uzbekistan” funded by the CDA Foundation (CDAF).
Within this project she is responsible for management and coordination of all project stakeholders.
She received her medical degree from Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and completed a residency program in Otolaryngology at Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute. Shakhlo also completed Postgraduate education for Infectious diseases through the program at the Tashkent Institute. Shakhlo has over 7 years of experience in marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, where she was most recently responsible for developing marketing plans, analysis of market and competitors, segmentation and positioning of medications, preparation of advertising-information materials, and key messaging presentations.
She has experience in organizing training programs for physicians, participation in congresses, developing and maintaining the relations with OL and KOL, as well as planning and control of budgets. In 2020 Shakhlo received her PhD degree in Medicine from the Higher Attestation Commission of Uzbekistan.
She is Director of the Representative Office of the CDA Foundation in Uzbekistan. In this position, Shakhlo participates in the creation of national protocols and guidelines in Uzbekistan, advises neighboring countries in establishing viral hepatitis screening and treatment protocols, conducts negotiations, and business correspondence with partners, government agencies, ministries, and other organizations.
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