Catalyze Health is led by Sowmya Rajan, a global health and social impact professional, with over 15 years of experience leading the planning, design, and implementation of innovative healthcare service delivery across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 

Sowmya is passionate about improving health outcomes for all, and addressing social and structural determinants of health through improved health and non-health services and policy. In her previous role at the Duke Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University, she built partnerships with biopharmaceutical corporations, philanthropies, government agencies, Ministries of Health, and social enterprises to improve health access and outcomes around the world. She has also conducted impact evaluations of reproductive health interventions for the Gates Foundation as a postdoctoral scholar at the Carolina Population Center in UNC Chapel Hill.

Sowmya has a Master's in Public Policy and PhD in Sociology and Demography from Duke University, and MBA from India.