Laurie Werner

About Laurie Werner

Over the past twenty years, Ms. Werner has focused her career on seeking sustainable solutions to issues related to global poverty and health. She has experience in a variety of areas of international development, including holistic community development, global health, land ownership, agriculture, microfinance, and gender issues. For eight years she served in the leadership of Agros International, as Director of Program and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. She led a multi-faceted program across multiple countries, managing the program implementation and operations in five country offices in Central America and Mexico. Laurie currently works at PATH (a global health organization), initially as a member of the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration (DoVC) Secretariat where she coordinated various working groups of experts and external consultation events to support the creation of the Global Vaccine Action Plan for the next decade. She was then the Global Director (formerly Deputy Director) for the Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative at PATH, which focused on improving immunization data collection, quality, and use for better decision-making in African countries’ immunization programs. She then joined PATH’s Center of Digital and Data Excellence, first as Director of Program and now as Co-Lead, where she leads the implementation of the updated CoDE strategy, including DEI planning and implementation, programmatic budgeting and work planning, and new business development, as well as continuing to lead a project portfolio of grants focused on increasing data use in health service delivery. Laurie is bilingual in Spanish and English, has a B.A. in Sociology from Whitworth University, and M.P.A. from the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Specialties: Bilingual in Spanish Program & Project Management International Development Global Health Monitoring & Evaluation Strategic planning Budgeting & financial management Grant management Project evaluation Stakeholder analysis Needs assessment Benefit/Cost analysis Statistical analysis Facilitation of meetings/events/trainings Participatory appraisal

Experience

1. Director, Center of Digital and Data Excellence

   PATH

   Aug 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• Whitworth University

  BA, Sociology & Religion

  1990 — 1994

• University of Washington, Evans School of Public Affairs

  Master of Public Administration, Nonprofit Management

  2000 — 2002