Emilia Carrera serves as a Director for the Health Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation. In her role, Emilia develops and manages a portfolio focusing on responding to the impact of climate change on human health by leveraging climate information for health decision and action across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. Previously, her portfolio for the Global Vaccination Initiative consisted of country-led efforts in response to Covid 19 pandemic in East and Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States.
Emilia joined The Rockefeller Foundation in 2019 when she started as part of the Equity and Economic Opportunity team. Prior to joining the Foundation, Emilia served at 100 Resilient Cities where she managed delivery of a resilience program in more than ten cities across Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and the U.S. Previously, Emilia worked in public and global health programs and research on HIV, sexual and reproductive health, and maternal and infant health programs in various regions. She has experience working with and in the public sector, research institutions, NGOs and private implementing partners.
Emilia received her Master of Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and her B.A. in Biology from the University of Chicago.
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Mar 29 2022 Perspective The Equity Test: Stronger Covid-19 Testing and Tracing in Latin America is Enabling an Equitable Pandemic Response The global Covid-19 response has been unprecedented, but it has also been deeply fragmented and inequitable around the world. While high-income countries are now taking steps to reach the next normal, low- and middle-income countries continue to face devastating losses. This is especially visible in Latin America and the Caribbean, where more than 65 million […]