Tanya Shewchuk

Tanya Shewchuk leads a team that works with global, regional, and country partners to support decision-making for vaccine programs and accelerate the introduction and expand the delivery of high-impact vaccines—including for human papillomavirus, measles, pneumococcal pneumonia, rotavirus, cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever. She is based in the foundation’s London office.

Tanya joined the foundation in 2015 as the leader of an initiative to launch HIV self-testing and improve HIV testing services. She later shifted to working on the effective deployment of vaccines.

Tanya has extensive field experience in researching and delivering health programs, primarily in East and Central Africa. She was the director of an 11-country study on malaria medicine markets that aimed to reduce the evidence-policy divide through supportive country decision-making, and she ran a project that used private-sector channels to increase malaria diagnosis. Earlier, she worked for UNICEF Somalia and spent seven years with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), including as head of mission for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and South Sudan, overseeing refugee, emergency, and primary health programs.

Tanya has a joint M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.