Jodi Charles
Senior Health Systems Advisor
USAID Bureau for Global Health, Office of Health Systems
Jodi Charles is the Senior Health Systems Advisor for the Office of Health Systems, USAID Bureau for Global Health. She provides technical assistance on health governance, finance, and operations capacity-building. Prior to joining USAID, Jodi worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Vietnam, where she led the U.S. Government/PEPFAR policy and health systems strengthening team and served as a Senior Health Policy and Governance Advisor. She also has advised on policy and health systems for the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, civil society in Burma for the University of Washington, and education development at the University of Foreign Studies-Hanoi. Jodi holds an MPA and MAIS from the University of Washington and speaks French and Vietnamese.