Nejma Cheikh is a Health Specialist in the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice. As a team member of the COVID-19 Fast Track Facility, she contributes to the World Bank Covid response across multiple countries. She has also been working in the World Bank HIV AIDS Program since 2012, representing the Bank as UNAIDS Alternate Global Coordinator, and participating in the design and evaluation of Bank HIV-AIDS programs and research. She currently leads a series of allocative efficiency studies in HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria and has conducted analytical work in Peru, Romania, Moldova, Armenia, Niger, Togo, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Madagascar, among other countries. Nejma holds an undergraduate and a master’s degree in economics and management as well as master’s degrees in public policy from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris.