Todd Summers

Board Member

Todd Summers is an independent consultant and a senior adviser to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). For the past twenty years, his primary focus has been focused especially on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

Most recently, he was working on behalf of the chair and vice chair of its Board’s Strategy Committee. Prior to that, he served as chair of the Strategy, Investment, and Impact Committee including oversight of the complete redesign of the Global Fund’s funding model. He has also served as vice chair of the former Policy and Strategy Committee, leading board engagement in development of the Global Fund’s first five-year strategy (2012-2016).

Summers has previously served as senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC and before that for the ONE Campaign. From 2005 to 2010, he was senior program officer within the global health group at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he led a team responsible for coordinating engagement with major multilateral partners, including the Global Fund, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, and UNITAID.

Before joining the Gates Foundation in 2005, Summers was president of Progressive Health Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm specializing in public health policy, which he founded in 2000. From 1997 to 2000, Summers was deputy director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy within the Executive Office of the President.

In his personal capacity, he serves as president of the Fund for the Global Fund, board president of AVAC, and as chief of the Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad. He holds a B.A. cum laude from Middlebury College in Vermont.