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Estelle Willie

Director, Health Policy and CommunicationsHealth, The Rockefeller Foundation

Estelle Willie serves as the Director of Health Policy at The Rockefeller Foundation, where she oversees investment portfolios, strategic partnerships, and engagement strategies for the Foundation’s $100 million Climate-Health program. She joined the Foundation in 2019. Estelle earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Authored Content

  • Apr 26 2022
    Grantee Impact Story Using Google Search Insights to Increase Vaccine Confidence and Demand In the first year of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, the United States struggled to reach the most vulnerable communities, with Black, brown, indigenous, and immigrant communities less likely to get a vaccine but more likely to get seriously ill and die of Covid-19. Community-based organizations, who have served on the frontlines throughout the pandemic, have […] Estelle Willie
  • Mar 29 2022
    Perspective Data Helps Us Paint a New Portrait of America—and Ways to Communicate One unfortunate axiom in communications work is: if it bleeds, it leads. Another might be: a divider is a headliner. We have seen this at play throughout the news coverage and social media conversations of the Covid-19 pandemic. Countless examples of unity, community, and mutual understanding in the face of tragedy have been overshadowed by […] Estelle Willie