As the Senior Director of Advancement for the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Rachel Gasana, MBA, oversees partnerships, advocacy, marketing, and communications. Gasana brings to the Network and Center more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, mobilizing more than $200 million for high-growth, mission-driven organizations in a variety of contexts.

While at Partners In Health, she expanded programming and partnerships across 11 countries and 3 continents, including support for the initial implementation of PEN-Plus. She started her career establishing a grassroots literacy nonprofit in New Haven, Connecticut, and building public and private sector support for a Tony-award-winning theatre company.

Gasana holds a BA from Dartmouth College (2006) and an MBA from the Yale School of Management (2021).