As Head of Communications at Global Health Labs (GH Labs), Amy Pearson-Wales defines, shapes, and delivers cross-functional communications that serve our people, mission, and strategic goals.

Previously, Amy was Senior Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs at SightLife, where she earned the 2021 National Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award from the American Marketing Association Foundation. Prior to SightLife, Amy helped crystalize and amplify the technology sector’s role in responsible (product) design, and before that, co-led the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation book of business at Weber Shandwick.

For many years, Amy also served in-house at PATH, where she helped strengthen the profile and reputation of novel vaccine technologies that now reach millions of healthcare providers and patients in low- and middle-income countries.

Amy earned her MPhil (Master of Philosophy) in Comparative Health and Social Policy from Oxford University, dual BA in Spanish-Language Literature and International Relations from Middlebury College, and post-graduate certificate in Women’s Health Advocacy from the Institute of Social Studies Erasmus University Rotterdam.