INLab
We turn good intentions into lasting impact. Guiding strategy, action, and scale with evidence, empathy, and accountability.
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Our Values
Our values are not abstract ideals. They shape how we show up, how we work, and how we define impact.
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Start with People, Not Data
We lead with empathy. Every intervention begins by understanding lived realities and designing with those most affected.
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Let Evidence Reflect Complexity
We combine data with context. Our analysis integrates local knowledge, social factors, and practical insight to tell the full story.
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Use Technology to Clarify, Not Complicate
We design tools that simplify decisions, highlight blind spots, and support real-time learning. Innovation is only useful if it serves people.
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Choose Integrity Every Time
We never trade accuracy for speed or ethics for convenience. We take on work we believe in and stand by the quality of our process.
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Make Transparency a Design Principle
We build systems that make insight visible and logic traceable. What we recommend can always be explained, verified, and shared.
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Our Founders
At INLab, we are bridge-builders who believe that transforming systems requires technical expertise and human insight. Our team includes scientists, strategists, and practitioners who share a commitment to making evaluation serve people and institutions, not distance them.
Dr. Aliaa Shanab
Founder and Principal Consultant
Global Health Strategist. SDG Implementation Expert. Inclusive Evaluation Specialist.
Aliaa leads INLab’s strategic direction, shaping frameworks for inclusive impact measurement and systems design across the development ecosystem. She brings over a decade of experience designing and evaluating programs for NGOs, advising bilateral donors on health portfolio strategy, and supporting government agencies in building institutional M&E capacity.
With a Master’s in International Public Health from Tsinghua University, Aliaa specializes in translating evidence into action across diverse organizational contexts. She has led national nutrition programs, advised multilateral partners on evaluation standards, built cross-sectoral partnerships, and spoken at the United Nations and international forums as a global advocate for equity-centered evaluation approaches.
Prakriti Dhakal
Global Health Policy and Systems Thinking Lead
SRHR Advocate. Systems Innovation Designer. Multi-Stakeholder Strategist.
From legislative advocacy to systems design, Prakriti works across borders to surface underrepresented voices and shift structural barriers. She guides INLab’s systems thinking efforts and supports the co-design of gender-responsive, community-centered programs that meet both grassroots needs and institutional requirements.
With over a decade in nonprofit leadership and global health policy, Prakriti is an LSE Chevening Scholar, founder of United for Impact (a women- and youth-led nonprofit working across South Asia), and serves as a systems judge for Map the System Canada. Her expertise spans NGO capacity building, donor engagement, and policy advocacy.
Dr. Mariam Monir Andrawes
Health Systems Advisor
Clinical Epidemiologist. Patient Safety Strategist. Quality Assurance Specialist.
At INLab, Mariam contributes technical leadership in surveillance design, quality of care frameworks, and evidence-based system strengthening. She supports partners across sectors in building robust monitoring systems that serve both accountability and improvement purposes.
With a Master’s in International Public Health from Tsinghua University and postgraduate training in microbiology, immunology, and healthcare quality, she currently serves as a Medical Epidemiologist at the Surveillance Department of a GCC-based infection control directorate, bridging research and operational excellence.
Equity must be the outcome of every system, and data, when used ethically, can strengthen dignity and inclusion.
Dr. Aliaa Shanab
Global Health Strategist. Disability Inclusion Advocate. Public Health Nutrition Expert
Where Strategy Meets Humanity
We help organizations turn good intentions into measurable, sustainable change. Our services span the full decision making cycle from strategy to action to scale always rooted in evidence, empathy, and accountability. Our approach adapts to serve NGOs building capacity, donors managing portfolios, and governments designing policies.