Alexandra Farnum

Alexandra Farnum leads the foundation’s health advocacy and communications efforts. She previously served as deputy director and chief of staff in the office of the president of the Global Policy & Advocacy Division, where her responsibilities included overseeing large advocacy partnerships. Earlier, she managed grantmaking for Francophone West Africa on the Family Planning team and grantmaking for infectious disease advocacy.

Before joining the foundation in 2007, Alexandra worked at Save the Children in Mali; the U.S. Embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; SS+K, a strategic communications firm in New York; and the International Herald Tribune in Paris.

Alexandra has a Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Master of Arts from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Arts in politics from Princeton University.