Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Brainstormer, Business leader, Change agent, Connector, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Parent, Potential employer, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Gabrielle Fitzgerald is a global leader who believes that innovative approaches and catalytic coalitions are needed to solve the most challenging issues. Her focus is on designing and driving strategies that measurably impact people, organizations and countries. For more than two decades, she has led teams and collaborated with partners to spark global change. For more than two decades, Gabrielle has led teams and collaborated with partners to spark global change. Most recently, she directed the $100 million Ebola Program at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, investing in creative approaches to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Gabrielle previously served as the director of Global Program Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, running the team that advanced the policy and advocacy agenda for 14 global issue areas. She led efforts that raised $1.3 billion in funding from new philanthropists to solve global health problems, and oversaw the Global Vaccine Summit, held in Abu Dhabi in 2013, which secured $4 billion to end polio. Gabrielle also built a constituency of supporters and champions working towards a malaria-free world, and in 2014 she won the Gold Medallion award from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs for her leadership on malaria. In 2017, Gabrielle founded Panorama, an action tank committed to sparking social change. As CEO, she spearheads a dynamic team that leads projects rooted in global health, gender equity, and economic productivity. Under her leadership, her team brings in-depth technical knowledge and vast functional experience to projects, including outbreak preparedness, nutrition, malaria, increasing access to paid family medical leave in all sectors, and understanding the women's barriers to political participation. She is also leading the Panorama team in moving the needle toward ending the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also initiated the first meeting of Seattle’s Women in Global Health chapter, which already has a membership of more than 700 women change makers working to improve health outcomes for the world’s most vulnerable populations. She also serves as the chair of the board of the Washington Global Health Alliance.

Epidemic Preparedness, Global Health, Philanthropy, Women in Politics, Women's Health