Sr. Program Officer, Jhpiego
Lanice C. Williams is a Sr. Program Officer at Jhpiego where she provides cross-cutting management and programmatic support for the Maximizing Options to Advance Informed Choice for HIV Prevention (MOSAIC) project in two countries. She has over 10 years of experience working on research, programmatic, and policy initiatives in the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to Jhpiego, she worked as a Gender Integration Specialist II at EnCompass LLC where she provided programmatic and technical leadership for gender and HIV prevention programming in Lesotho for PEPFAR DREAMS, GBV prevention and response, and gender integration. She has experience in policy and advocacy, coalition building, civil society and partnership engagement through her previous work with Friends of Global Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria. She was a 2016-2017 Global Health Corps fellow at Global Health Council. Currently, she serves as the Chair for Women in Global Health DC Chapter and Co-Chair for the Young Professionals Program with United Nations Association-National Capital Area (UNA-NCA). On October 4, 2022, she was sworn in to serve as a Commissioner for the DC Commission for Women, which works closely with the Mayor's Office on Women's Policy and Initiatives. She has spoken on panels for Pathfinder International, Women in Global Health, and at APHA’s 2017 and 2020 Annual Convenings. She was an 2022-2023 WomenLift Health North America Leadership Journey. She is passionate about advancing equity and equality at the intersections of health, gender, and race in the U.S. and globally. Her work on gender equality has been published in Ms. Magazine and Just Security. Lanice received a Bachelor's of Science in Biology and Master’s degree in Health Education from Howard University.
Vision Statement: Now more than ever organizations like UNA-NCA are needed to continue to advocate for a strong U.S. and UN partnerships and bring the local perspective of the SDGs in the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area. As the current co-chair of the Young Professional Program, I am honored to be nominated to serve and support UNA-NCA’s Board of Directors. I hope to develop diverse programs for young professional in the DMV area and strengthen our pipeline of inter-generational leaders by increasing opportunities for YP members to serve in leadership roles across the organization.
