We build bridges between lived experience and institutional power in global health.
Because health is shaped by systems, power, and history, not just biology or personal decisions. We support the people reimagining what’s possible. Aligning strategy, evaluation, and research with the values they stand for.
We help connect lived experience to institutional power.
RAISE Global Health is a collective of researchers, strategists, and collaborators working to make global health more honest, more just, and more accountable.
We move between boardrooms and grassroots spaces, between policy and practice. Our team brings the ability to translate across these worlds, helping partners ask better questions, hold the full story, and build structures that reflect the communities they serve.
What We Do
Our expertise is intersectional.
So is our work.
We focus on sexual and reproductive health, gender and sexuality, disability rights, refugee health, and climate justice, where systems collide, power is most visible, and where asking better questions can reshape entire approaches. Our work lives at the intersection of institutional systems and community knowledge and helps others move across that space with clarity and care.
We support partners with:
- Participatory research rooted in lived experience
- Program strategy and evaluation that reflect real-world context
- Organizational learning that helps teams align their work with their values
How we work
We hold the whole story.
Health doesn’t start at the clinic door. We help partners center context, power, and lived experience alongside data, so that decisions are more grounded, more accountable, and more honest.
We share power in practice.
Power shows up in the details: who’s in the room, how decisions get made, whose voice shapes the outcome. We help partners recognize that, and make intentional choices that build trust, inclusion, and real change.
We move through complexity together.
We don’t simplify the work to make it easier, we move through the hard parts with curiosity, reflection, and care. That’s how values come off the wall and into the work.
What it looks like in practice
We show up to help our partners shift their systems and to build the capacity to keep going.
We’ve helped partners:
- Design research that reflects lived realities
- Reshape programs to share power and improve accountability
- Reflect on internal dynamics to align teams with their values
- Center queer, disabled, and displaced communities in their strategy
Trusted by institutions. Grounded in community.
We work with NGOs, grassroots coalitions, funders, and public health institutions. Some of our partners include:
IPAS
World Health Organization
