Amie Batson is President of WomenLift Health, a global organization that advances women’s leadership in health as a strategy for stronger health systems and better health outcomes — particularly for women, girls, and underserved communities.
Amie brings decades of experience across global health policy, financing, and institutional development. Over the course of her career, she has worked at the intersection of global institutions, governments, and development partners to help design and strengthen major global health initiatives. These experiences have shaped her conviction that leadership remains one of the most underinvested levers for improving how health systems function — and that no institution performs as well as it could without women’s leadership, voice, and authority inside it.
At the World Bank, she played a founding role in establishing Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Global Financing Facility, which have collectively mobilized tens of billions of dollars for vaccines and health systems worldwide. Through a joint appointment with WHO and UNICEF, she designed and launched UNICEF’s Vaccine Independence Initiative, a $100 million revolving fund that continues to enable timely vaccine access for countries around the world. At USAID, as Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health, she shaped U.S. strategy and investment across the Bureau’s global portfolio. At PATH, she served as Chief Strategy Officer, guiding partnerships and programs at scale.
At WomenLift Health, Amie brings that same institution-building perspective to one of global health’s most underleveraged investments: the women leaders who are already inside the institutions, ministries, and organizations shaping health systems — but who too often lack the leadership development, networks, and institutional authority to drive change at scale. WomenLift Health’s work demonstrates that investing in women’s leadership strengthens institutional performance and produces measurable progress toward more equitable health outcomes.
Amie holds an MBA from Yale University and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. She is a published author and a frequent speaker on women’s leadership, health systems strengthening, and the future of global health.