Dr. Alice Abou-Nader is a Senior Country Manager in Gavi’s Middle-Income Countries (MICS) team supporting the implementation of grants strengthening national immunization programs and the introduction of new vaccines (rotavirus, PCV and HPV) across Gavi-graduating countries. Prior to joining Gavi’s MICS team, she facilitated and coordinated the distribution of over 205 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines across 16 Southeast Asian and Western Pacific countries while part of Gavi’s COVAX Country Engagement Team.
Dr. Abou-Nader has experience in engaging with Ministries of Health, Ministries of Finance, and National Parliaments to move forward sustainable immunization financing through data analysis, strengthening government fiscal oversight, and immunization-related legislation while working for Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Sustainable Immunization Financing (SVI-SIF) team. Her responsibilities included in-country capacity building for financial data analysis for evidence-based decision making across 22 countries. Following her tenure at SVI-SIF, she served as a Senior Program Officer at John Snow Inc, Maternal Child Survival Programme (JSI-MCSP) where she was responsible for designing, monitoring, and managing the core immunizations technical support to country’s with immunization backsliding and monitored the program learning agenda to generate publications for evidence-based policies.
She has over a decade working on supporting national immunization programs across different country settings and has been recently appointed as an Honorary Assistant Professor by Hong Kong University’s Department of Public Health to impart her practical experience to graduate students.
Prior to joining Gavi, Dr. Abou-Nader obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences from Chinese University of Hong Kong having researched the impact of vaccine financing and procurement mechanisms on new vaccine introductions and access. She also holds an MPH from the Erasmus Mundus EuroPubhealth Program and a BSc in Biotechnology and International Studies from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
