Associate Vice President, Global Health
Dr. Cecilia Mundaca Shah is Associate Vice President for Global Health at the UN Foundation. In this role, Cecilia serves as the Foundation’s primary policy, advocacy, and technical lead on global health security, providing strategic management and oversight to the Foundation’s portfolio on pandemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance, immunization, malaria, and displacement.
Before joining the UN Foundation, Cecilia led the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) team that managed the work of the G20 High-Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. At NAM, Cecilia oversaw critical initiatives on health security, emerging infectious diseases, One Health, and aging. Additionally, Cecilia served as NAM’s Director of the Forum on Microbial Threats, Global Roadmap on Healthy Longevity, and the Multi-Stakeholder Initiative for Creating a Global Health Risk Framework. Previously, she directed the Surveillance Center of the Emerging Infections Program at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 6 in Peru, where she led the implementation of a digital health surveillance platform at sites across the nation and initiated the platform’s adoption in five other countries in South America.
Cecilia earned a DrPH degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, and an MD degree from San Marcos National University, Lima, Peru.
