Emily Combs is a Global health leader who brings excellent project and program management skills, cross-functional strategic planning, collaboration, and leadership to high-functioning and dynamic teams. at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. She possess expertise in microsoft excel, project management, qualitative research, scientific writing, powerpoint and 24 more skills. She is proficient in Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, French and Spanish. Colleagues describe her as "Emily and I worked side-by-side leading IHME's Global Impact Group, which had the job of disseminating rigorous forecasts of the COVID pandemic to inform public and policymaker action. Emily was the glue that cohered a talented team running 1,000 directions during a chaotic, high-pressure time. She made people on the team feel included, heard, and coordinated whether she was facilitating strategic planning processes, soliciting team input, running big meetings, or leading the charge on important initiatives. She showed herself to be one of the most skilled project leaders I've encountered. Far beyond pushing Gantt charts, she could identify the critical sequence of steps necessary to deliver on an idea and could follow up diplomatically to usher busy people toward action, knocking down hurdles in their way. I felt very lucky to have worked with Emily." and "I've worked closely with Emily for the last four years within the Global Impact Group at IHME. Emily develops systems that solve problems and provide consistency in our team's operations. Her solutions keep our diverse teams operating more effectively and efficiently. She provides strong contributions to strategic planning in consultation with our team leads and the organization’s senior leadership. As a driving force behind our unit's development of a five-year strategic plan, Emily’s open and curious approach ensures we arrive at creative and innovative solutions that build trust. Emily is results-oriented and has a strong understanding of how to get complex work done within a matrixed environment. Above all, Emily has earned the utmost trust both within and outside our team for her compassionate and values-driven leadership. She has proven herself to be an accountable, initiative-taking professional committed to furthering our organization’s mission of disseminating world-class research to inform global health policy and practice. A few tangible examples of Emily’s leadership in action include: • Improving team operations through the development of metrics, budget protocols & systems, team onboarding & communication standardization, streamlined workflows, and efficiency strategies. • Building impactful presentations for executive stakeholder engagement including IHME's Board and Independent Advisory Committee, as well as meetings with key funders. • Leading the development of IHME's five-year strategic roadmap."