Emily Inslee

Senior Program Officer on the Philanthropic Partnerships Team. My work in partnership development includes building and mobilizing the next generation of champions for global health and development, ensuring that philanthropy helps the world's most vulnerable survive and thrive. I cultivate and manage relationships with philanthropists, foundations, networks, and other philanthropic organizations to close the gap between intent and action, which has resulted in over $655M mobilized for Gates-aligned global health and development programs and partners. Manage a grant portfolio of over $45M covering programs and partners around the world who together advance progress on global health, development, and gender equality programs.

Program Officer on the Philanthropic Partnerships team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Program Manager for Global Policy & Advocacy, the Philanthropic Partnerships team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Program Coordinator at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the Strategy, Planning, and Management team within Global Policy and Advocacy.

Researched and developed two policy briefs that examined the link between nutrition and HIV therapy provided by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Created a nutrition advocacy plan by identifying policy barriers and provided legislative solutions to Congress and other HIV and nutrition stakeholders to improve PEPFAR effectiveness, particularly for women and their infants. Developed high-impact, action-oriented strategies to translate findings and advocate for increased nutrition supplementation as part of the HIV treatment package in PEPFAR countries. The briefs were distributed to nutrition advocacy groups, HIV and nutrition researchers, HIV field workers, and decision makers in PEPFAR countries and in Washington, DC. Developed a partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), 1000 Days, and PATH to set and accomplish collaborative objectives.

Worked in collaboration with the Director of Strategic Initiatives to conduct, analyze, and present new technology and competitor research opportunities to shape Mathematica's strategic development initiatives and increase research effectiveness. Researched complex health and social policy issues and synthesized findings into policy briefs, fact sheets, and press releases that informed Members of Congress and their staff. Worked with the Associate Director of Communications to develop and execute a high-impact strategic communications and government affairs outreach plan for public consumption. Additionally, partnered with the Contract Procurement team to plan and prepare multiple proposal budgets to secure new research opportunities.

Served as part of a team preparing the Department of Assessments 2012 application for the United States Department of Commerce’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. As a graduate intern, aligned department plans and processes; researched and proposed performance excellence measures for the department to implement; collected department productivity data; synthesized the results, and identified improvement strategies. Conducted a quantitative analysis of 20 years of Department of Assessments productivity data. Identified specific organizational improvement opportunities based on this analysis.

Served as project manager of a $2.7-million project for the Food and Nutrition Service. Responsibilities included preparing and delivering monthly client progress reports; ensuring the project operated within the monthly budget. Provided research assistant support on multiple education and health policy research projects, including data management and analysis tasks. Conducted literature reviews and topic area searches for the What Works Clearinghouse. As a Security Associate, focused on incorporating secure data practices and evaluating and improving internal system capabilities. Also assisted with the project contract and procurement process by budgeting for dozens of project proposals. Supported data security planning and implementation projects. Created and conducted secure data handling practices training to staff, and helped design and implement a SharePoint site to monitor and respond to security project proposals. Designed and maintained an electronic secure data access tracking system to ensure that sensitive research material and Personally Identifiable Information was protected.

Assisted the health care legislative staff by researching, reviewing, and presenting personal testimonies pertaining to health care; performed support tasks, including researching and writing memos, drafting and responding to constituent correspondence, and answering front office phones; scheduled and conducted Capitol tours.

Created and deployed a productivity assessment tool to evaluate and increase departmental efficiency. Led a branch-wide revision of the inventory process to identify weaknesses and proposed solutions for addressing opportunities for improvement.