Todd Summers is an independent consultant focused on addressing urgent global health challenges. Most recently, he has been working on behalf of the Global Fund's board of directors to help develop a new organizational strategy. He serves as Vice Chair of the board's Policy and Strategy Committee.
Prior to that, Summers served as Senior Advisor for Global Health at the ONE Campaign, where he helped lead their work to address urgent health issues facing people living in poor countries. From 2005 to 2010, he was a Senior Program Officer within the Global Health Policy and Advocacy team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. There, he lead a Multilateral Relations team responsible for coordinating the Foundation's engagement with major partners including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization; and Unitaid.
Before joining the staff in February 2005, Summers was president of Progressive Health Partners, a DC-based consulting firm specializing in public health policy he founded in 2000. From 1997 to 2000, Summers was the deputy director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy. While there, he helped coordinate the nation's domestic HIV/AIDS work and to launch the administration's first international AIDS initiative.
In his personal capacity, he currently serves on the board of AVAC, the US Fund for the Global Fund, and Haiti's Matenwa Community Learning Center. He has a BA cum laude in Religion from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont (1982).