Tara Loyd

Biography

Tara Loyd serves as Executive Director to PIVOT which works at the invitation of the government of Madagascar to built a replicable model district for Universal Health Coverage for the country. The model district of Ifanadiana includes UNESCO World Heritage Site Ranomafana National Park. Tara spends summers in Ranomafana with her young children and school years at home in Lexington, Kentucky. Previous to serving as PIVOT's first employee in 2013 and Executive Director since 2018, Tara lived and worked in Lesotho, Malawi, and rural Alaska with a variety of CBOs and as Partners in Health staff. In early 2020, Tara closed the Boston headquarters office of PIVOT to shift authority with resources to the Malagasy leadership team in Ifanadiana district and wrote about it publicly in this SSIR piece last November. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/moving_closer_to_the_problem_and_closer_to_the_solution