Matt Craven

Matt is a leader of McKinsey’s work in infectious diseases and public health within our Social, Healthcare and Public Sector Practice. A physician by training, he has more than 18 years of experience in public health, including five years spent leading infectious disease programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Matt is currently a leader of McKinsey’s public health response to COVID-19.

Matt serves clients across the social, public and private sectors on a range of topics relevant to infectious diseases and public health. He is passionate about the control and elimination of infectious diseases and has worked extensively on HIV, TB, malaria, neglected tropical diseases and vaccine preventable diseases.

Matt is currently a leader of McKinsey’s Public Health response to COVID-19. He has advised on more than 150 organizations on their response to the pandemic, serving clients across sectors and around the world.

Matt has supported major outbreak preparedness programs in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean and has worked on a number of outbreak responses. During the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic, Matt took a leave of absence from McKinsey to serve as Districts Coordinator for the WHO Ebola response team in Sierra Leone. He has worked across five continents and with many of the leading global institutions in public health.