Helene Gayle is CEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global social challenges. Previously, she was president and CEO of CARE USA, a leading international humanitarian organization. An expert on global development, humanitarian, and health issues, she spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control, working primarily on HIV/AIDS. Dr. Gayle then worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, directing programs on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues. Dr. Gayle serves on public company and non-profit boards including: The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, the Rockefeller Foundation, CSIS, the New America Foundation, the ONE Campaign, and the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, she serves on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Named one of Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women,” she has authored numerous articles on global and domestic public health issues, poverty alleviation, gender equality, and social justice. Dr. Gayle earned a B.A. in psychology at Barnard College, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University. She has received 13 honorary degrees and holds faculty appointments at the University of Washington and Emory University.
John H. Hammergren is chairman, president and chief executive officer of McKesson Corporation. He was elected president and CEO in 2001 and chairman in 2002. Under Mr. Hammergren’s leadership, McKesson has become the leading provider of healthcare services and information technology solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve their business performance and deliver better care to patients. In the time since Mr. Hammergren became CEO, the company has more than quadrupled revenues to $179 billion, expanded into global markets, advanced to number 11 on the Fortune 500 and provided shareholders with more than a 17% compound annual return. Recognizing his tremendous track record of success, Harvard Business Review recently named Hammergren as one of their 100 “Top Performing CEOs in the World.” In addition, buy-side analysts, money managers and sell-side researchers identified Hammergren as the 2015 Best CEO for the health care technology and distribution segment.
Lisa Carty has worked for more than three decades in the fields of global public health, humanitarian relief and international women’s issues. She has had leadership roles in both the public and non-profit sectors including 25 years with the U.S. Department of State with overseas assignments in Asia, the Middle East and Russia. Her UN career has included work with the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, as well as a posting as UNAIDS’ Country Director for the Russian Federation. Earlier in her career, Ms. Carty helped lead the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program and was a Senior Fellow and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2009 to 2011 she served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations and is currently a board member of the George W. Bush Institute’s Global Health Initiative. She holds a Master Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
First elected in 1996, Senator Collins is serving her fourth term in the United States Senate and has earned a national reputation as a consensus-builder on the nation’s most important issues. As a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Collins is a leading voice for improving the lives of women and strengthening the health of families around world. In particular, she has secured increased funding for global nutrition programs, including those that target women and children during the critical 1,000 day window from pregnancy to age 2. Senator Collins has also introduced bipartisan legislation, including the International Violence Against Women Act and the Reach Every Mother and Child Act, to bolster the U.S. response to gender-based violence and maternal and child health and help ensure that women and young children are able to reach their full potential, no matter where they are born. As Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Senator Collins and former Senator Joseph Lieberman authored a major overhaul of our nation’s intelligence community after the September 11th attacks. She has also led numerous bipartisan investigations that have resulted in concrete governmental reforms.
Steve Davis, President and CEO of PATH, combines extensive experience as a technology business leader, global health advocate, and social innovator to accelerate great ideas and bring lifesaving solutions to scale. Davis’ commitment to human rights and development grew from early work on refugee programs and policies, and from his later focus on Chinese politics and law. He has led a range of private and nonprofit organizations, including as CEO of the global digital media firm Corbis, director of social innovation for McKinsey & Company, and interim CEO of the Infectious Disease Research Institute. Davis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), serves on the boards of InterAction and Global Partnerships, and sits on several advisory groups, including at the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative. Davis earned his BA from Princeton University, his MA in Chinese studies from the University of Washington, and his JD from Columbia University.
Congressman Daniel “Dan” M. Donovan, Jr. represents Staten Island and parts of South Brooklyn in the 11th Congressional District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Dan serves as Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications. In that role, he exercises oversight of the federal government’s anti-terror and disaster response policies. Dan also serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Dan has dedicated his life to serving the people of New York. In 2003, Dan was elected Richmond County District Attorney, beginning 12 years of service in that office. During his tenure in the DA’s office, Dan helped make Staten Island the safest community in NYC by aggressively cracking down on drunk drivers, toughening laws against domestic violence offenders and creating a national prescription drug database to tackle opioid abuse.
Dr. Chris Elias is the president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he leads the foundation’s efforts in a diverse range of program areas aimed at finding creative new ways to ensure solutions and products get into the hands of people in poor countries who need them most. Chris oversees Global Development’s portfolio in Agriculture Development; Emergency Response; Family Planning; Financial Services for the Poor; Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health; Nutrition; Polio Eradication; Vaccine Delivery; and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. A common theme of these programs is innovative and integrated delivery, including an emphasis on strengthening of primary health care systems. Chris’s professional background is in public health and medicine. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation in February 2012, he worked in various positions and countries for international nonprofit organizations, most recently serving as the president and CEO of PATH, an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors. Chris holds an MD from Creighton University, and an MPH from the University of Washington.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health until August of 2011. He recently served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. Dr. Emanuel received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University and has published widely on health care reform, research ethics and end of life care. His most recent book, Reinventing American Health Care, examines the history of the U.S. health care system, the Affordable Care Act, and health care predictions for the future. He is also a contributor for the New York Times.
Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, brings 35 years of international development experience along with a deep conviction in the power of people to work together to solve complex human development challenges. Before joining FHI 360, Patrick served as the Vice President for Compact Operations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), where he helped to shape non-traditional approaches to U.S. bilateral assistance through his oversight of development partnerships with 24 countries. From 2006 to 2010, he was Senior Vice President of the Global Learning Group at the Academy for Educational Development (AED). As a member of the Senior Foreign Service at USAID Patrick served as the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Africa Bureau and Mission Director in Afghanistan, where he led the rapid expansion of U.S. assistance for reconstruction and development. Patrick began his career in international development as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Swaziland where he gained a first-hand appreciation for the importance of integrating issues of education, health, economic development, and governance. His experience living and working in a rural African community continues to inform and inspire him today.
Dr. Julie Gerberding is Executive Vice President, Strategic Communications, Global Public Policy, and Population Health at Merck & Co., Inc, where she also has responsibility for the Merck for Mothers program and the Merck Foundation. Julie joined Merck in 2010 as President of Merck Vaccines. She previously served as Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2002-2009. In this position, she led the agency through more than 40 emergency responses to public health crises. Dr. Gerberding received her undergraduate and M.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). She serves on the Boards of CWRU, National Association of City and Country Health Officials (NACCHO) Foundation, Accordia Global Health Foundation, MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories, and the BIO Executive Committee.
Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in the Washington Post and in nearly 100 other newspapers. He is the author of Heroic Conservatism (HarperOne, 2007) and coauthor of City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era (Moody, 2010). He appears regularly on the PBS NewsHour, Face the Nation and other programs. Gerson serves as Senior Advisor at ONE, a bipartisan organization dedicated to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable diseases. Until 2006, Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush as Assistant to the President for Policy and Strategic Planning. Prior to that appointment, he served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President, Director of Presidential Speechwriting, Assistant to the President for Speechwriting and Policy Advisor.
Congressman Richard Hanna was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. He is a successful businessman who has maintained a lifelong interest in public policy and economics. Congressman Hanna has also donated his time, leadership and personal resources to numerous causes to compassionately address needs in our society. In cooperation with The Women’s Fund of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc., Congressman Hanna in 2004 founded “Annie’s Fund.” The fund was created to help women make positive changes at critical points in their lives through one-time grants. Hundreds of grants have been awarded since its inception. The YWCA of the Mohawk Valley has also honored Congressman Hanna as a “Champion of Women” for more than three decades. Congressman Hanna sat on three Congressional committees: the Small Business Committee, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the bicameral Joint Economic Committee.
Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, is the founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, a non-profit that strives to strengthen health delivery in places facing dire shortages of health professionals by working with partner countries to meet their long-term health care human resource needs. Their flagship program partners with the Peace Corps. She is the director of the program in Global Public Policy and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and serves as the Associate Director of Partnerships and Global Initiatives at MGH Global Health. Her academic focus is on health, and public and foreign policy. She is working to help highlight the impacts of political decisions on health, the need to invest in human resources for health in resource-constrained countries, and the role health can play in improving foreign assistance efforts.
Mark Kirk served in the U.S. Senate from 2010-2017. Previously, he served five terms representing Illinois 10th District in the House of Representatives. Kirk served as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve from 1989-2013, has worked at the World Bank and State Department, and served as counsel to the House International Relations Committee. He served on four Senate Committees, including Appropriates, Banking, HELP (Health, Education, Labor & Pensions), and Aging. Kirk was also chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs as well as the Banking Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance.
Asma Lateef has been director of the Bread for the World Institute since 2007. Ms. Lateef is responsible for implementing the Institute’s analysis and education on policy issues related to U.S. and global hunger, malnutrition and poverty. Since 2010, she has been involved in efforts to establish and support the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. She now serves on the Steering Committee of the SUN Movement’s Civil Society Network and is also a member of the executive committee of the 1,000 Days Advocacy Working Group. Ms. Lateef has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland, a post-graduate diploma in economics from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in Geography from McGill University. She has over 20 years of experience in public policy and extensive experience developing and implementing policy advocacy strategies. Prior to becoming Institute Director, Ms. Lateef was director of Policy and Programs at Citizens for Global Solutions and a senior international policy analyst in the Government Relations Department of Bread for the World. In 2003, she led Bread for the World’s campaign to support the establishment of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee represents California’s 13th District; she serves on the Appropriations and Budget Committees including the Appropriations’ subcommittee of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs. Lee chairs the Whip’s Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality and Opportunity and has twice been nominated to serve as a Congressional representative to the 68th and 70th Sessions of the UN General Assembly. Lee co-founded and co-chairs the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus and has co-authored every major piece of HIV legislation since entering Congress in 1998. She authored legislation establishing the USAID Office for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children and co-authored legislation establishing the framework for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She is a co-author of the Reach Every Mother and Child Act (HR 3706). She previously served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and currently serves as chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s Peace and Security Task Force, a senior Democratic Whip and a co-chair of the Sudan and South Sudan Caucus.
Kathleen McLaughlin is the Chief Sustainability Officer for Walmart, and the President of the Walmart Foundation. Walmart uses its strengths to create economic opportunity for individuals and foster inclusive economic development; enhance the sustainability of food, apparel, and general merchandise supply chains; and strengthen the resilience of local communities. Last year, in addition to business initiatives investing in people and businesses in supply chains, the company surpassed over $1.4 billion in giving worldwide, including $1 billion of food donations. McLaughlin joined Walmart in 2013. Before that, she spent over 20 years with the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company. McLaughlin earned a Bachelor of Science from Boston University, and she also earned a Master of Arts from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Afaf Meleis, PhD, DrPS(hon), FAAN, has demonstrated a profound passion for pushing the boundaries of nursing science, cultivating the next generation of healthcare leaders, and improving women’s health. During her tenure as the fifth Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (2002-2014), she fostered a community that is voiced, empowered, and dedicated to making an impact on global healthcare; launched multidisciplinary and global partnerships that are advancing nursing science, education and practice; expanded research in critical areas; cultivated a culture of innovation where new programs and technologies are being developed to address emerging healthcare challenges; and strengthened its commitment to serving and supporting the local community. Prior to coming to Penn, she was a Professor on the faculty of nursing at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California San Francisco for 34 years. She has mentored hundreds of students, clinicians, and researchers from Thailand, Brazil, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Columbia, Korea, and Japan. Dr. Meleis’ academic interests are in global health, immigrant and international health, women’s health, and on the theoretical development of the nursing discipline.
J. Stephen Morrison is senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and director of its Global Health Policy Center. Dr. Morrison writes widely, has directed several high-level commissions, and is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa, and foreign assistance. He served in the Clinton administration, as committee staff in the House of Representatives, and taught for 12 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College.
Mike Quigley was elected to Congress to represent Illinois’ 5th District on April 7, 2009. Formerly, he served as the Cook County Commissioner and began his career as an aide to former 44th Ward Alderman Bernie Hansen. Mike is the co-founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Transparency Caucus. He is the only Illinois member of the House Committee on Appropriations, serving on the Subcommittee on Financial Services and the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. He also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He has a bachelor’s degree from Roosevelt University, an MPP from the University of Chicago, and a law degree from Loyola University Chicago.
Diane Rowland is Executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director of the Foundation’s Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. She is a nationally recognized health policy expert with a distinguished career in public policy and research focusing on health insurance coverage, access to care, and health care financing for low-income, elderly, and disabled populations. Appointed as the inaugural chair, Dr. Rowland is the Chair of the congressionally-authorized Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) established in 2009 to advise Congress on issues related to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Dr. Rowland is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, a Masters in Public Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Doctor of Science in health policy and management from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
Jeanne Shaheen was first elected to the United States Senate in 2009 and is currently serving her second term as the senior Senator from New Hampshire. She is a member of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Foreign Relations and Armed Services, and serves as Ranking Member on the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. As the lead Democrat on the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs, Shaheen helped to secure ratification of the New START arms reduction treaty with Russia and has championed other initiatives to strengthen the trans-Atlantic alliance. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee responsible for funding U.S. foreign assistance efforts, Senator Shaheen has been a vocal proponent of family planning and reproductive health programs in countries where women lack adequate access to care. Previously, she served three terms as the Governor of New Hampshire and is the only woman in U.S. history to be elected both a Governor and a United States Senator. Before her election to the Senate, Shaheen was the Director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government.
Debora L. Spar is the seventh and current president of Barnard College. In her eight years as president, Spar has been a vocal proponent of women’s education and leadership, both at the College and across the globe. Prior to joining Barnard in July 2008, Spar spent 17 years on the faculty of Harvard Business School. A political scientist by training, Spar’s scholarly research has focused on international political economy and, more recently, issues of particular importance to women. She is the author of numerous books, most recently, Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (2013). Spar is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and received her doctorate in government from Harvard. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently serves as a director of Goldman Sachs; a director of Value Retail, LLC; and a trustee of the Wallace Foundation.
Jeffrey L. Sturchio is President and CEO at Rabin Martin, a global health strategy consulting firm, and former President and CEO of the Global Health Council. Before joining the Council in 2009, Dr. Sturchio was vice president of Corporate Responsibility at Merck & Co. Inc., president of The Merck Company Foundation and chairman of the U. S. Corporate Council on Africa (CCA). He is chairman of the BroadReach Institute for Training and Education, a member of the boards of CCA, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria and the Museum of AIDS in Africa and an advisor to amfAR, the Clinton Global Initiative and the NCD Alliance. His publications include Noncommunicable diseases in the developing world: addressing global gaps in policy and research (edited with L. Galambos, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).
Phil Thomson was appointed Senior Vice President, Communications and Government Affairs in 2014. He is a member of the Corporate Executive Team. He has responsibility for Media Relations, Investor Relations, Corporate Responsibility, Internal Communications, Product Communications, Government Affairs and GSK’s Global Brand and Community Partnerships. Phil joined Glaxo Wellcome as a commercial trainee in 1996, moving from pharmaceutical brand marketing to product communications. In 1999 he became a Director of Media Relations for Glaxo Wellcome plc and in 2001, took up the position of Director, Investor Relations for GSK. In 2004, he returned to Corporate Media Relations as Vice President. During his time with GSK, Phil has worked on various matters related to corporate strategy and performance, product and data announcements, and issues related to GSK’s reputation. Phil earned his degree in English and History from Durham University.
Christy Turlington Burns is the founder of Every Mother Counts, the organization she founded to help end preventable maternal deaths around the world. After surviving her own childbirth complication, Christy directed and produced the documentary, No Woman, No Cry to raise awareness about maternal health challenges that impact the lives of millions of girls and women around the world. She has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in 2014, Glamour Magazine’s Woman of The Year in 2013 and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative Minds in 2013. Christy enjoyed a successful career as a model while continuing her education. She has co-created public health communications campaigns about smoking cessation and prevention since 1997 and launched an award-winning website, SmokingIsUgly.com. Christy is a member of the Harvard Medical School Global Health Council, and on the advisory Board of New York University’s Nursing School. She holds a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies.
Janet Fleischman is a senior associate with the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she focuses on women’s global health and U.S. policy. She is also an independent consultant who has worked for many organizations addressing the health and rights of women and girls, gender-based violence, family planning/reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. These include the Kaiser Family Foundation, UNAIDS, the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, and CARE. She has conducted field work in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Fleischman has authored numerous reports and produced several videos about women’s and girls’ health and rights. She is a frequent speaker on issues related to women’s global health, gender and HIV/AIDS, human rights, and U.S. policy. From 1983 to 2003, Fleischman worked for Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.-based international human rights organization, as a researcher on Eastern Europe and Africa and then as the organization’s Washington director for Africa.
Katherine E. Bliss is Senior Associate with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, where she has led research on the influence of the BRICS on the global health agenda; analyzed U.S. support for maternal and child health programs in lower- and middle-income countries; and testified before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the right to water and sanitation. As a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, Bliss was a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff. She then joined the Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science to develop foreign policy approaches to environmental health challenges. Bliss began her career as a historian of Latin America. She has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Smith College, and the University of Chicago. She is a Fellow at the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health.
Talia Dubovi is deputy director of external relations and director of congressional affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She previously served as deputy director and senior fellow with CSIS’s Global Health Policy Center. Prior to joining CSIS, she spent six years on Capitol Hill, most recently as appropriations associate/counsel for Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY), where she covered a wide range of foreign affairs issues and supported the representative in her work as ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. Ms. Dubovi also served as counsel to the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs and previously worked on human rights and judiciary issues for Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL). Before working in Congress, she was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP and a fellow with Human Rights Watch’s Refugee Program. Ms. Dubovi is a member of the Boards of Directors of Humanity In Action and the Global Campaign for Education U.S. Chapter. She is also a fellow with the Truman National Security Project and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Sara Allinder is deputy director and senior fellow of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. She has extensive experience with the U.S. government in global health, foreign policy, international development, human rights, and program management. For 10 years, she worked on the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Washington and in Uganda, where she served as country coordinator of the $353 million PEPFAR program (2013–2015). She led a staff of more than 200 in preparing the 2013–2015 Country Operational Plan (COPs), served as senior adviser to the ambassador, contributed to the response to the Anti-Homosexuality Act, led development of Uganda’s DREAMS strategy targeting adolescent girls and young women, and revitalized engagement with civil society organizations. In four stints at the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (2003–2016), Allinder was a senior adviser on PEPFAR management and operations issues, including field-based staffing. Allinder previously served as policy adviser in the Office of International Health Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where she led the policy response to the SARS and Avian Flu outbreaks and served on the Steering Committee for the PMTCT Initiative, which preceded PEPFAR. She served as senior editor for Africa of the Human Rights and International Religious Freedom reports in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State Department and as writer/editor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. She also has worked for a member of Congress, the Department of the Navy, and a public relations firm. Allinder was a Class of 2000 Presidential Management Fellow. She holds a M.P.P, with a concentration in international development and health, and a B.A., magna cum laude, in political science and sociology, both from the American University in Washington, D.C.
Cathryn Streifel is associate director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, with a primary focus on family planning and reproductive health; maternal, newborn, and child survival; and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Previously, Ms. Streifel worked as a Business Development Associate at Futures Group International, where she supported the pursuit of new business opportunities in health informatics; family planning; maternal and child health; and HIV and AIDS. She holds a MPH from The George Washington University and a BA from McGill University.
Katey Peck is a program manager and research associate at the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, where she focuses on family planning and reproductive health, as well as maternal, newborn, and child survival. Previously, Ms. Peck worked as a research analyst and writer at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, where she contributed to donor guidance for global investments in child health. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.