Suzanna Dennis is a Senior Advisor at GHV. She provides support across health and nutrition portfolios with an emphasis on global health financing. Recently, she has supported partners including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Nutrition Policy, Advocacy, and Communications team and the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents.

Suzanna brings twenty years of experience in strategy development, partnership-building, facilitation, analysis, advocacy, organizational capacity strengthening, and business development. She also contributes sector expertise in health financing, SRHR, nutrition, maternal and child health, health systems, water and sanitation, governance, and primary health care.

Previously, Suzanna spent four years at PAI as a senior advisor in health financing. There, she led a multi-million-dollar project providing technical support and grants to civil society organizations in 25 countries per year, to contribute to the goals of the Global Financing Facility for women, children, and adolescents.  She also served as PAI’s director of research and led the organization’s financing program which tracked and analyzed donor funds and domestic resources for sexual and reproductive health.

Suzanna earned a master’s degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has worked in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Bolivia and supported advocacy in many other countries.  

Suzanna lives with her family outside Washington, D.C. She spends her free time hiking and renovating a historic house in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

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Areas of Expertise:

• Health financing

• Advocacy

• Strategy

• Reproductive health

• Maternal health

• Family planning