Deepali Patel

Deepali Patel joins the AMR Action Fund with over 15 years of experience in global health policy in the US, Europe, Central America, and Asia. Prior to the Fund, she served for seven years as a Senior Policy Officer at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where she led the development of policies and strategies to accelerate the development, distribution, and uptake of high-impact vaccines in low- and middle-income countries. Most recently she oversaw the successful approval of Gavi's $2 billion malaria vaccine investment. She previously spent nine years at the National Academy of Medicine in the US, developing health policy and research recommendations for US and global stakeholders. She is a 2009 Fulbright Scholar, a graduate of the 2017 Advanced Course in Vaccinology, and received her BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and her MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.