VillageReach
Sierra Petrosky is an experienced Global Program Manager at VillageReach, responsible for managing Laboratory Sample Transport programs across 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on enhancing specimen quality and reducing turnaround times. Previous roles include Global Technical Team Associate at VillageReach, where Sierra coordinated a Strategic Training Executive Program and co-created Supply Chain Resilience tools, and Global Health Program Manager at Bloodworks Northwest, managing grant-funded initiatives to improve blood transfusion access globally. Additionally, Sierra served as a Rural Community Health Advisor with the Peace Corps in Benin, addressing health issues affecting women and children, and held roles in counseling and nursing earlier in the career. Sierra holds a Master's degree in Public Health with a focus on Maternal & Child Health from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor's degree in Health Sciences, Biology from Northern Arizona University.
VillageReach
VillageReach is a non-profit global health innovator that develops, tests, implements and scales new solutions to critical health system challenges in low-resource environments, with an emphasis on strengthening the “last mile” of healthcare delivery. VillageReach combines expertise across public health, technology, and business to bring life-saving innovation – new systems, programs and technologies – to scale and sustainability in the world’s most underserved communities. Effective solutions require a deep understanding of local health systems, a diverse set of skills and expertise, and strong relationships on the ground in order to achieve sustainable impact. More than a decade of studying and working in low-resource communities around the globe drives our approach— focus on solutions that address the most critical barriers to improving health outcomes in LMICs: healthcare accessibility, lack of infrastructure, information availability, and human resource constraints.