Amy Boldosser-Boesch

Chair, Nominating Committee

Amy Boldosser-Boesch is a recognized leader and passionate advocate with more than 20 years of experience in both global and U.S. domestic health policy and advocacy, with a focus on women’s and adolescents’ health and rights. She is currently Senior Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy & Engagement and Senior Director for Integrated Health Care at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a global non-profit organization that works with countries and communities to build strong, resilient, sustainable health systems. She oversees MSH’s work and teams dedicated to improving women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health and person-centered primary health care and leads advocacy and accountability efforts for improved sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health and universal health coverage. She manages the Secretariat for the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism of UHC2030, which advocates ensuring marginalized groups are not left behind in the push to achieve universal health coverage. Amy currently serves as the Chair of the Nominating Committee of the Global Health Council board of directors and is the incoming Chair of the Board (term starting January 2025).

Previously, she was interim president and CEO, and vice president of global advocacy, at Family Care International (FCI), an NGO dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safer in the developing world; she led the integration of FCI’s programs and staff into MSH in late 2015. Before joining FCI, she was director of local advocacy initiatives at the National Institute for Reproductive Health, led a NYC Department of Health-funded initiative to increase emergency contraception access among adolescents and immigrant women, was deputy director at the International Organization for Adolescents, and worked in the Health Equity program of the Rockefeller Foundation on initiatives to redress health disparities in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Ms. Boldosser-Boesch is an active member of a number of global advocacy initiatives, including the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality and Every Newborn Action Plan Working Group, and serves on the UNFPA Global Advisory Council. She holds a Master of International Affairs in Human Rights from the Columbia University School of International and
Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Romance Languages and Politics from New York University.

Term Expires: December 31, 2024