Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, DrPH, is a Program Director at the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard, where she leads the Representation in Research portfolio. Previously she spent more than fifteen years working for Management Sciences for Health, the World Bank, Avenir Health, UNICEF, and USAID in the areas of health economics, maternal and child health, disability rights, HIV/AIDS, and humanitarian response. She participated in the Global Health Cost Consortium as a core team member, collaborated on the development of the first U.S. Government Action Plan on Children in Adversity, and supported the improvement of cost-effectiveness modeling of HIV and malaria interventions. She has also served for five years on the Board of Directors for All Farmers, an organization that supports refugee and immigrant families to access arable urban land and farmers markets.
Dr. DeCormier Plosky earned her DrPH in Global Health Leadership and Humanitarian Assistance from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, received her MPH in Global Health from the Yale University School of Public Health, and her BA in African History and Anthropology from Bowdoin College.