Allison Kimmel is a senior program manager with the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH), a joint initiative of the O’Neill Institute and Georgetown University Medical Center.
Dr. Kimmel has over a decade of experience in managing complex domestic and global project, grant, and research portfolios. She is a technical leader in biomedical HIV prevention programs, policy, and implementation science, with a proven ability to work with public and private partners to accelerate biomedical HIV prevention product introduction. Her experience includes co-leading USAID’s pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programming across more than 40 countries in Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa, including the introduction of new prevention products. At USAID, she provided technical leadership in HIV prevention, informing PEPFAR’s strategic direction, and sustained partnerships with technical experts, civil society, normative bodies, regulatory authorities, donor agencies, industry, and multilateral institutions. She previously served on the HIV Delivery team at the Gates Foundation as an HIV prevention product introduction specialist and relationship manager with key government, donor, research, community, and industry partners. There, she co-led a global coalition of donors to coordinate efforts to introduce new products into LMIC markets equitably and with speed. She started her work in HIV prevention as an HIV test counselor and outreach worker at youth- and key population-serving community-based organizations in Michigan and Washington, DC.
Dr. Kimmel holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from Boston University’s School of Public Health in Health Policy, Leadership, and Management, in which she conducted an implementation science study of the first PrEP initiative for women of color in the United States as her dissertation work. She received her Master’s of Public Health (MPH) and Bachelor’s of Arts (BA) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
