Lauren Marks

Biography

Lauren leads external engagement for Johnson & Johnson Global Health Equity. In her current role, she focuses on external engagement for J&J’s social impact and philanthropic efforts to advance access to care and champion health workers.

Prior to joining J&J, Lauren spent most of her career in government, at the Department of State and USAID. She was the Director of Private Sector Engagement for the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), where she built several multi stakeholder partnerships and spearheaded large-scale innovation competitions to source new ideas to solve public health problems.

She also served as the Health Program/Public-Private Partnership Advisor at USAID/South Africa, and USAID/Washington, where she provided technical support to USAID missions in several African and Asian countries.

Prior to USAID, Lauren was a corporate attorney at Nixon Peabody in New York. She has a law degree from Georgetown and a BA from Duke.