Chris White

About Chris White

I\'m a senior international development professional with decades of growing responsibility within multilateral, non-governmental, and philanthropic organizations. I have extensive regional and in-country programmatic experience across sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia-Pacific, providing technical assistance to public and private sector health programs, in both emergency and long-term development contexts. In recent years, I\'ve overseen a number of complex grant portfolios and facilitated multi-stakeholder partnerships at the Gates foundation, bringing logical coherency to complex operational and strategic processes, whilst being action-oriented and impact-focused. Currently, I serve as a Senior Officer in the Global Health Agencies & Funds (GHAF) team, with a particular focus on health systems strengthening, climate and health, and the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, & Malaria. On climate, I represent the GHAF team in the Climate Advocacy Advisory Group within the Gates foundation and represent the foundation on the Global Fund\'s Climate and Health Catalytic Investment Advisory Committee.I hold a Masters degree in the control of vector-borne disease from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK), a BSc in zoology from the University of Nottingham (UK), and a certificate in Climate & Health from the Yale School of Public Health. Prior to working in the humanitarian and international development sector I served in the British military in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and East Africa and later led a number of biodiversity-related survey expeditions in tropical forest habitats in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout my development and humanitarian response career I have also worked occasionally as a photojournalist, particularly in SE Asia, completing assignments for numerous non-governmental and UN organizations, and several regional media outlets.

Experience

1. Senior Officer - Health Systems Strengthening, Global Health Agencies & Funds

   Gates Foundation

   Oct 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• Yale School of Public Health

  Certificate, Climate Change & Health

• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

  MSc, Applied Parasitology & Medical Entomology

  1997 — 1998

• University of Nottingham

  BSc, Zoology

  1993 — 1996

Skills

• Health Policy
• Global Health
• Technical Assistance
• Advocacy
• Fundraising
• Public Policy
• Malaria
• Nonprofits
• Training
• Grants
• Capacity Building
• Program Evaluation
• Civil Society
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Proposal Writing
• Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos)
• International Development
• Policy
• Strategy Development
• Research
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Strategic Communications
• Policy Analysis