Melissa Thumm

Melissa Thumm is a global health director at Panagora Group, focusing on country-specific and global health activities as well as business development. She brings 17 years of experience in designing, planning, implementing, and monitoring USAID-funded health and pharmaceutical systems strengthening programs in 25+ countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She has provided technical and strategic leadership to projects that improved access to essential medicines for maternal, newborn and child health, malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases by working across all the health system building blocks. Her focus in recent years has been on building and leveraging global, regional, and local partnerships to provide coordinated support to country-owned and led health programs. She earned an M.Sc. in public health in developing countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a B.A. in modern U.S. history from Brown University. She speaks Spanish and basic Portuguese.