Ayman Sabae is a right-to-health researcher for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in Cairo and works for a grass-roots initiative for a citizens-conceived, managed and funded health cooperative model through Shamseya, a not-for-profit company he co-founded. Through his work, he assists healthcare professionals and local communities with the strategic design of healthcare systems to improve health service provision in Egypt. He works through an integrated, participatory community-based paradigm, following a rights-based approach to health. Through research, consultations, service design, advocacy work and civil action, his work has culminated in the creation of the first citizens-conceived Egyptian Patients' Rights Charter and a community monitoring portal for health services provision (eghospitals.com). He received an M.D. from Cairo University Medical School and an M.A. in international healthcare management from the Management Center Innsbruck, Austria. He then furthered his studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. He most recently attended Session 507, The Drive for Universal Health Coverage: Health Care Delivery Science and the Right to High-Value Health Care, in 2013.