Amelia Kinter is a program operations director with more than fifteen years of experience supporting global health programs across Africa and Asia. Ms. Kinter oversees the operations of R4D’s Health and Nutrition portfolios where she provides financial and operational management across the programs. She recently served as the deputy chief of party operations on the African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS) project where she collaborated with the cross-cutting team to link to the country teams and program activities. She currently oversees R4D’s operations on the Frontier Health Markets Engage (FHM-E) project, Integrated Health Systems Strengthening (IHSS) and other programs.
Ms. Kinter also leads R4D’s travel, safety and security, and global office operations including overseeing policy development and implementation, supporting travel across R4D and stewarding the duty of care.
Before joining R4D, Ms. Kinter worked at PATH for nearly eight years providing technical, financial and operational support across numerous health programs including the MQSUN project, Global Campaign for Microbicides, MCSP and the U.N. Coalition for Life Saving Commodities. She also supported the Challenge TB project as PATH’s project officer and provided technical and operational support to the Malaria in Pregnancy pilot project.
Ms. Kinter launched her career in global health supporting the government of Kenya to develop the baseline data for their Trachoma awareness campaign. Following this experience, she was a Global Health Fellows intern with the USAID TB team.
Ms. Kinter holds master’s degrees in social work and public health, both focusing on global health and health management, from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
