Shan Soe-Lin

Shan Soe-Lin

  • Undergraduate Capstone Faculty

Office location

Horchow Hall

55 Hillhouse Avenue

About

Shan Soe-Lin is a managing director at Pharos Global Health Advisors, a non-profit global health advisory firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, that she helped to co-found. She specializes in developing solutions to complex strategic, organizational and operational issues affecting global health non-profit organizations, private philanthropies, multilaterals, and U.S. healthcare payer and provider systems. 

Through her tenures with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Recon Strategy, Results for Development Institute and now Pharos Global Health Advisors, Shan specializes in developing forward-looking strategies, resource mobilization approaches, competitive landscapes and investment cases for organizations and governments focused on nutrition, HIV, TB, and maternal and child health issues. More recently, she has advised developing countries and NGOs on COVID control and published several editorials in The New York Times, Boston Globe and Politico on domestic COVID control and return-to-work strategies. Shan also works with her clients to improve their organizational effectiveness and leadership development. Her clients have included the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, Unitaid, the Global Fund, Partners in Health, Nutrition International, and Kirk Humanitarian.

Education

  • PhD in Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Canada
  • MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
  • BSc in Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University, Canada