Amy Lockwood MS, MBA, PhD
Senior Advisor, HIV Cure Africa Acceleration Partnership (HCAAP)
Amy is a public health specialist with deep experience in strategy, management, and communications. She advises organizations sectors engaged in addressing global health challenges, including COVID-19, HIV, and nutrition. Amy has spent her career bridging the corporate, academic, and non-profit sectors to design and implement solutions to the world’s most difficult problems.
Most recently, she has led efforts to improve access to testing as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response as the first Testing Branch Chief for the San Francisco Department of Health and the Director of Public Health for Color Health. She has also held leadership roles at the University of California, San Francisco, Stanford University, and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, providing strategic guidance and managing operations to advance research, design products, and implement programs to strengthen health systems.
Amy received her PhD in Global Health Sciences at UCSF in 2019 with a research focus on the role of improved leadership and management in achieving better population health outcomes. Amy also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MS in Marketing and a BS in Communications, both from Northwestern University. Prior to working in global health, Amy was a strategy consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) specializing in consumer market research, branding, and communication.