Deb Derrick Biography

Deb Derrick is a global health thought leader with nearly two decades of policy and international development experience. As President of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria she leads the organization in educating and engaging U.S. decision makers on the lifesaving work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria. The U.S. is the largest donor to the Global Fund the world’s most powerful tool in the fight against these three diseases and Friends has been instrumental to securing the ongoing strong support of the U.S. executive branch and Congress on a bipartisan basis.
Ms. Derrick previously served as a Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she directed approximately $15 million annually in advocacy contracts and grants with the U.S. government and worked on the foundation’s highest-profile global health projects.
In this work she facilitated the foundation’s partnership with the U.S. government to eradicate polio and to fund and strengthen the Global Fund and GAVI (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation). In addition she coordinated global health-related visits by the foundation’s leadership and co-chairs to Washington D.C. and Africa and worked with Melinda Gates to help build bipartisan support in the U.S. for expanded access to women’s health care.

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