Lanice Williams

Lanice C. Williams is a Director of Advocacy, Communications, and Partnerships at Data2X. She has over 11 years of experience working on research, programmatic, and policy initiatives in the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Previously, she served as a Senior Program Officer at Jhpiego, where she managed critical projects like MOSAIC and RISE HIV HOP activity. Her technical expertise spans gender equality, HIV prevention, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response, and health equity. 

Before 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, advocacy, 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. She is Chair of the Women in Global Health DC Chapter and Co-Chair of the Young Professionals Program with the United Nations Association-National Capital Area (UNA-NCA). 

She is a dual citizen of Jamaica and the U.S. and holds a Master of Science in Health Education and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Howard University. She has spoken on panels for Pathfinder International and Women in Global Health and at APHA’s 2017 and 2020 Annual Convening. Her work on gender equality has been published in Ms. Magazine and Just Security.