Molly Abbruzzese

Molly is a Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She joined the vaccine delivery team at the foundation in 2011, and focuses on programmatic areas related to innovation, systems strengthening, and increasing equity in health service delivery in low-income countries. Molly began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador and has worked in both Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. In her free time, Molly runs the Seattle Chapter of a non-profit youth leadership organization, Amigos de las Americas.

Molly was born in Seattle but took some time to live and work in Latin America, New York, and Switzerland, before returning home. She has a BA in International Relations from Lewis & Clark College and an MIA/MPH from Columbia University.