Stacey Ann Pillay, Contract & Performance Manager for Integrated Mental Health

Stacey Ann Pillay has recently been appointed as the Contract & Performance Manager at the Healthy Brains Global Initiative. Stacey will be responsible for ensuring the high performance of contracted service providers, initially on a project to integrate mental health care into maternal care and childhood immunizations in South Africa and beyond.

Stacey has 14 years of experience in the social impact sphere and is committed to improving access to healthcare and education. Stacey has recently been a partner at an organisation that aimed to help small businesses scale through culture change programmes. Stacey’s experience in start-ups extends to her role as Chief Operating Officer at a medical technology organisation that connected health workers and enabled them to send and receive referrals.

In the preceding three years, Stacey was the Academic Executive at a leading private higher education provider in South Africa, where she led seven academic programmes as well as conferencing and learnerships. Stacey continues to teach and assess part-time on post graduate leadership courses. Stacey was previously the CEO of an organisation that placed health workers where they were needed in Africa and capacitated them and their colleagues to serve patients and the health system. Stacey advanced in her career at the organisation from administrative assistant over a 10-year period. Stacey has supported hundreds of doctors in their transition to serving in underserved areas in Africa and made education accessible to over 100,000 thousand people across the continent.

In 2015, Stacey was one of 25 participants from six African countries selected by the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice for the ‘Leading in Public Life’ Programme. Stacey was also selected as a fellow by the Vedica Scholars Programme for the Global Programme for Women’s Leadership in 2019. In her various roles Stacey managed relationships with a range of key stakeholders including existing and potential donors, government and healthcare regulators. Stacey has led diverse projects and continues to mobilise stakeholders around a social mission.