Dr. Heather White is a global health specialist with twenty years of experience in program design, management, and evaluation across numerous practice areas, including non-communicable diseases, HIV, family planning, and cervical cancer prevention. She has provided hands-on technical support to local teams in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Heather is the Executive Director at TogetHER for Health where she leads the organization in its ongoing mission to end cervical cancer worldwide through effective partnership, advocacy and resource mobilization. She is also currently a part of the Asia Pacific Women's Cancer Coalition, a collaboration of partners who are working together to expand preventive healthcare for women in the region.
Prior to her role at TogetHER, she worked at Population Services International (PSI), where she served as a program manager on the global business development team, and later as PSI’s global technical advisor for cervical cancer, hypertension and diabetes. Heather has experience working with complex international programs that engage multiple partners across civil society, corporate, and government sectors.
Prior to working in the non-profit sector, Heather served in numerous administrative roles at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, most recently as director of educational programs at UAB’s Sparkman Center for Global Health. Heather served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa, after receiving her Master’s of Public Health degree in International Health and Epidemiology from UAB in 2001. She received her Doctor of Public Health degree from UAB in 2011.
