Anna Winters co-founded and serves as the CEO of Akros. Winters holds a PhD and MS in epidemiology coupled with extensive field experience leading the development and implementation of successful community-based surveillance systems to support health in sub-Saharan Africa. Her niche is understanding local context and barriers to maximizing health-program impact, and then putting in place targeted, low-cost systems to address these barriers. Through Akros, and previously with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Winters works directly with host country governments to ensure the viability and integration of technical innovations.