Executive Director, AMP HealthAMP Health
Robert Newman is a pediatrician with more than 30 years of experience in global health and development, and has worked extensively in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He is Executive Director of AMP Health, a Johannesburg-based non-profit working with African governments to develop visionary and effective public sector teams. Prior to that, he held roles as Vice President and Global Head of Tuberculosis at Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health; Country Director for U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Cambodia; Managing Director for Policy & Performance at Gavi; Director of the Global Malaria Programme at the World Health Organization, CDC team lead for the President’s Malaria Initiative; and Country Coordinator for Health Alliance International in Mozambique. He received his BA in English Literature from Williams College, his MD from Johns Hopkins University, and his MPH from the University of Washington, where he remains Clinical Professor of Global Health