Jamila Headley is managing director of the Health Global Access Project (Health GAP), an advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring global access to affordable life-sustaining medicines for all people living with HIV. Before joining Health GAP, she served as a program officer with the Open Society Foundations’ Public Health Program. Headley has conducted research on the development of the HIV response in the Caribbean, the politics of priority-setting in the health sector, the impact of trade agreements on health policy and access to medicines, and the role of North-South civil society partnerships in influencing powerful global health institutions. She is a Rhodes Scholarship recipient.
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