Dr. Lynne Gaffikin is a seasoned public health expert with over 45 years of experience designing, monitoring, and evaluating health initiatives in low-resource settings across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Community Health and Epidemiology from the University of Illinois, an MPH in Epidemiology from UCLA, and a BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Gaffikin’s expertise spans maternal and child health, reproductive health—including family planning and nutrition—and integrated health and conservation initiatives. She brings extensive cross-cutting experience in applied research, strategic planning, health systems strengthening, quality assurance, and implementation science.

For over 25 years, she has been at the forefront of linking human, wildlife, and ecosystem health within the frameworks of Population, Health, and Environment (PHE), Conservation Medicine, One Health, and Planetary Health. Earlier in her career, she played a pivotal role in expanding access to high-quality women’s reproductive health services, with a focus on family planning, STI prevention, and cervical cancer screening.

 

Dr. Gaffikin has held academic affiliations with Tulane University, Johns Hopkins University, and, for the past 15 years, Stanford University. She has collaborated with governmental, non-governmental, and private organizations at multinational, national, and community levels. To amplify the impact of her work, she has published extensively in leading medical journals, including The Lancet, JAMA, and NEJM, and has contributed to over 100 technical reports.