Chris Wolff

Chris Wolff leads a team that focuses on strengthening immunization delivery platforms to reach more communities with vaccines and other vital services.

Since joining the foundation in 2014, Chris has established and led multiple teams focused on delivery innovations ranging from electronic immunization registries and new cold chain technologies to new delivery partnerships with the World Bank and other global health funds.

Previously, Chris worked at the World Health Organization (WHO), primarily on immunization and polio eradication. His roles included leading outbreak response, overseeing one of WHO’s largest global disease surveillance and data networks, providing technical advice to dozens of countries on strategies to complete eradication, and working on global policy development related to vaccine strategies. He played an active role in interrupting poliovirus transmission in India, Nigeria, and multiple outbreak countries. He started his time at WHO in the Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila, Philippines, and then moved to WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Before joining WHO, Chris worked as a fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on tuberculosis monitoring and evaluation systems in Central Asia. He also spent some years teaching biology in the Czech Republic and doing research with Habitat for Humanity on the relationship between improved housing and health.

Chris has a B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University and an MPH from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.