Fireside Chat with Heather Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of Global Health Corps
Oxford Global Health Society Presents: Global Health Organization (GHO) Spotlights. A series of talks to introduce University of Oxford students to global health organisations around the globe. These include social enterprises, funders, leadership development programmes, and more.
On June 25, we are delighted to invite Heather Anderson, CEO of Global Health Corps, to speak with the society. Global Health Corps is a leadership development programme targeted for global health leaders from USA and Sub-Saharan Africa.
About Heather Anderson:
As GHC’s CEO, Heather provides leadership, management, and vision to drive GHC’s mission to mobilize a global community of health equity leaders. Since 2012, she has overseen GHC’s leadership development programming and training curriculum, partner recruitment and selection, and impact measurement activities in her roles as Senior Vice President of Programs and Chief Impact Officer.
Prior to joining GHC, Heather was Vice President at Global Health Strategies, an international advocacy and communications consulting firm. She managed a portfolio of public and private sector clients, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Women Deliver and GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Heather previously served as a Senior Program Officer at Planned Parenthood Global in Washington D.C. Additionally, she spent time in Ethiopia establishing a youth program for EngenderHealth. Before joining the global health community, Heather spent six years at Accenture, a management consulting firm. She holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan. Heather lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
About Global Health Corps:
Founded in 2009 by Barbara Bush, Global Health Corps’ (GHC) award-winning leadership development program has trained and cultivated a tight-knit network of 1200+ diverse, young professionals (including 700+ women) across the U.S. and Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve health equity. GHC and its partners do this by recruiting and training emerging leaders ages 21-30 into competitive, yearlong fellowships that cultivate critical, often undervalued traits in the workforce: systems and design thinking, collaboration, humility, storytelling, and adaptiveness. GHC also invests in their leaders beyond the fellowship year through their robust alumni program, building a community that strengthens leaders' ability to work together across borders and boundaries to address the root causes of health inequity.
GHC’s networked leadership approach has shown significant impact:
Alumni are 2x as likely to remain in health or social sector as their peers
69% of alumni now hold mid- to senior-level decision-making roles
72% of alumni collaborate professionally with each other
79% of alumni have spoken publicly, published writing, or participated in advocacy efforts this past year
About the Event
This event is hosted by the Oxford Global Health Society, and invites all Oxford students, alumni, and staff from around the world to join.
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