Contexts of work
Global
Amanda BenDor
Health is a human right. Honest partnerships, creative solutions, empathy, and sustained commitments will contribute to health equity for all global citizens.
Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, Amanda is a dynamic global health professional dedicated to health equity. Early in her career, she supported global programs aimed at addressing health workforce shortages in low-resource settings, specifically providing technical and programmatic support for health workforce training in family planning. Working with health workers, including staff at pre-service training institutions, has profoundly influenced Amanda’s perspective and career in global health. There is no health without the health worker.
Recognizing the immense opportunity that digital tools offer in supporting the health workforce, as well as the impact that the right kind of data can have on improving health services and policy, Amanda pivoted to digital health in 2013. She supported governments in using digital tools during the West Africa Ebola outbreak in 2014/2015, including introducing a health worker communication tool to ensure frontline health workers had essential information to protect themselves while treating patients. She also played a key coordination role at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting countries in utilizing existing tools for pandemic response. For the past decade, Amanda has collaborated with multilaterals, bilaterals, governments, open-source software developers, international NGOs, and the private sector to scale digital technologies in low-resource settings.
Amanda brings to Sonder Collective her passion for health equity and her commitment to ensuring that everyone, especially women and children, has knowledge of and access to quality health services. She believes in the power of digital tools as enablers of universal health coverage and the value that data and insights can provide for health service delivery. Amanda joined Sonder because she believes that solutions—digital or otherwise—must be designed to meet the unique needs of individuals and communities.
Amanda holds a master’s degree in public health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
