Deepali Patel joined the Fund with more than 15 years of experience in global health policy in the US, Europe, Central America and Asia. Most recently, she spent seven years serving as a Senior Policy Officer at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where she led the development of policies and strategies to accelerate the development, distribution, and uptake of high-impact vaccines in low and middle income countries. During that time, Deepali oversaw the successful approval of Gavi’s $2billion malaria vaccine investment. She previously spent nine years at the national Academy of Medicine in the US, developing health policy and research recommendations for national and global stakeholders. She is a 2009 Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the 2017 Advanced Course in Vaccinology. Deepali received an MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.