Elina Urli Hodges is an Assistant Director of Programs at the Duke Global Health Innovation Center and Innovations in Healthcare. Elina oversees a portfolio of research initiatives focused on increasing access to health products and services in low- and middle-income countries by studying the end-to-end pathways of scaling from R&D to sustainable scale. She has developed impact measurement frameworks for pharmaceutical industry-led access to medicine programs, and evaluated the collective impact of an NCD-related systems strengthening consortium in Kenya.

Prior to joining Duke University, Elina worked for more than a decade on NCD prevention, population health, and global workplace health promotion projects with U.S. government agencies, multinational corporations, and regional health systems. She began her career in health working on U.S. domestic health policy efforts for the American Heart Association in Washington, DC. Elina received a Master of Science in Public Health degree, with a concentration in Health Policy and Management, and global health, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs and French from the University of Virginia.