Strategic Advocacy
and Smart Programs
for Global Change
About Sage Innovation
Sage Innovation is a Brooklyn-based firm that works for change, equity and access to health around the world. We build strategies, partnerships, and programs that create clearer, stronger and more informed actions by governments, civil society and the international community. We tackle emerging issues and improve health systems to bring new life-saving technologies to children, women and families in low and middle-income countries. We partner with international organizations, governments, foundations, civil society, academic institutions and the private sector.
What We Do
Advocacy and Coalition Building: Sage Innovation works with its clients to expand resources, encourage effective policymaking and build greater support at all levels in global health by developing untraditional advocacy strategies, dynamic partnerships and global campaigns.
Impact and Policy Research: Sage Innovation works with NGOs, governments and foundations to design and measure success. We have the unusual capacity to handle varied needs from epidemiological program evaluation to economic analysis to policy research.
Innovative Design for Scale: Sage Innovation develops programs that ensure access, affordability and sustainability of health services for all members of a community—now and in the future. We are particularly focused on the development of a new model of health services that offers quality solutions to current health priorities while embracing rapidly emerging health needs in low and middle-income countries—long-term HIV care, cancers, chronic diseases, and aging populations.
Global Communications: Sage Innovation builds knowledge that drives change in global health. We communicate effectively in international and country-specific markets by using traditional and new media to build awareness, support and interest in our clients’ issues and solutions.
Sarah Goltz, MPH, MIA
Sarah Goltz, Principal
An expert in global advocacy, policy development and program design, Sarah has committed her career to finding innovative solutions that improve the health and well- being of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Over the past fifteen years Sarah has led global advocacy coalitions, developed access strategies for new health technologies and vaccines and designed innovative programs for NGOs, governments and agencies that are scalable, equitable and lasting. She has worked with young leaders, Ministries of Health, physicians, activists, Parliamentarians, the global media, world business leaders and international agencies to positively affect global health.
An innovator in the areas of women’s health, vaccines, non-communicable disease and public-private partnerships, Sarah’s work has fostered a convergence of political will, global financing and strong community-based interventions in developing countries. Recently, she has led Cervical Cancer Action, and provided technical support to International Planned Parenthood, FIGO, PATH, American Cancer Society and international agencies in the global effort to introduce HPV vaccines in low and middle-income countries. Sarah was also Director of Advocacy at Global Health Strategies in New York and Senior Technical Advisor at the Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) in Cairo, Egypt. Early on in her career, she founded the Global Action Network, an early social networking and career development site for young leaders from developing countries, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and other major donors.
A Fulbright Scholar, Sarah graduated with honors from Princeton University and earned her masters degrees in International Affairs and Public Health from Columbia University. She teaches global health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
Contact
Sarah Goltz
Sage Global Innovation, LLC
DBA/ Sage Innovation
540 President Street, Third Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
+1 646 623 4462
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Clients
Team
We work closely with a team of independent consultants to meet the diverse experience and skills required by our clients and our projects.
Aubrey Cody, MPH
Aubrey Cody, MPH is a global health expert with more than ten years of experience designing and supporting innovative and sustainable reproductive health, maternal, newborn and child health and refugee health programs. Aubrey has led numerous global initiatives for major international organizations, including Save the Children, Intrahealth International, and the International Rescue Committee. She has field experience in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. Aubrey holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Laurence Cibrelus, MD, MPH
Dr. Cibrelus is a medical epidemiologist specializing in operational research, infectious and tropical disease surveillance and policy. Over the past decade, Laurence has worked in partnership with governments, academic institutions and international agencies to develop innovative strategies to improve public health decision-making in low resource settings. Most recently, Laurence worked with the World Health Organization to support national prioritization of the new meningitis A vaccine and other underutilized vaccines across Africa. She has field experience in Africa, the Pacific and Europe.
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