Allison Phillips
Managing Director, Human and Planetary Health
Bio
Allison is the founding Managing Director of the Center for Human and Planetary Health at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment. In this role, she leads strategic planning, partnerships, fundraising, and programming to develop interdisciplinary solutions that protect human health and sustain nature.
Before joining the Center for Human and Planetary Health in 2023, Allison served as Executive Director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health at the School of Medicine, leading programs on global health equity, planetary health, and refugees and other vulnerable populations. She previously spent 11 years as Deputy Director of the UCSF Malaria Elimination Initiative, joining during its start-up phase and co-leading strategy, fundraising, operations, and partnerships for a 60-person team working to eradicate malaria.
Her 20+ years in global public health also includes leading malaria and HIV prevention programs in rural Tanzania, advising on private health sector investment across Africa with McKinsey & Company, and health research in Thailand and India. Allison holds a degree in Medical Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College.
Current Role at Stanford
Managing Director, Center for Human and Planetary Health, Woods Institute for the Environment