Dr. Akudo Anyanwu

Dr. Akudo Anyanwu is an award-winning global health expert, public health innovator and social entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience in the field of international development. She is the VP and Head of Business Development at Clinton Health Access Initiative. Prior to this, she was an Associate Dean for Development at Johns Hopkins University.

She has served on the boards of Roll Back Malaria, the Global Health Council and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. She is also the Founder of Friends Africa, a pan-African organization that fights AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria by mobilizing African businesses, governments, and NGOs.

Anyanwu’s pioneering work on the Gift from Africa Campaign has been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation as a top 100 next century innovation. She has also been awarded Tufts University’s Distinguished Service Award (2015), Harvard School of Public Health Innovator of the Year (2013), and Ogunte Social Leader of the Year (2013), Stevie Innovator and Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2012). Anyanwu holds a MD in Medicine from Tufts University, an MSc in Public Health from Harvard University and a BSc in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University.