Scientist | Women’s Health Leader | Equity and Gendered Innovation for Impact | Global Partnerships | Community- led Development Advocate

Amanda Cordova-Gomez, MSc, PhD, is a senior global health leader, scientist, and strategic advisor with over 15 years of experience advancing translational research and innovation across women's health and sexual and reproductive health globally. A PhD-trained reproductive physiologist and advocate for locally-led innovation, she has stewarded multi-million-dollar research portfolios at USAID and built strategic partnerships with WHO, the Gates Foundation, UN agencies, LMIC institutions, and locally led partners — with a sustained commitment to embedding equity, user voice, and responsible research practice into every stage of the scientific process. She is the Founder of Local2Global Lab, where she guides the design of equitable innovation through local agency and global collaboration and leads LMIC-anchored research and innovation programmes spanning discovery science, clinical research, with a gender-integrated, person-centred approach, and evidence-to-policy pathways. She currently serves on the WHO IBP Network Steering Committee, the Gates Foundation Women's Health Innovation Equity Forum, and as Guest Editor at Frontiers in Reproductive Health. Amanda holds a PhD in Health and Life Sciences from the University of Tours (France), an MSc in Reproductive Physiology from Cayetano Heredia University (Peru), and a GenderPro Capacity Building Certificate from the George Washington University.