Lani is a health management and evaluation specialist with expertise in the use of improvement methods and knowledge management approaches to strengthen health care delivery. She has over 25 years of experience working in international health programs, where much of her work has focused on strengthening the performance of facility-based and community-based health workers through improvement methods. Her most recent publication is an article she co-authored on the evidence from 12 countries of the effectiveness of collaborative improvement. She has prepared several reviews of research and programmatic evidence on interventions to improve health care providers’ compliance with standards and on facilitative supervision in health programs. Currently, she manages the global knowledge management system about improving health care for the USAID Health Care Improvement Project.  She received her MHS from the International Health Department of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.