Strategic Partnerships Lead
Sydney is Vaccinate Your Family’s Strategic Partnerships Lead. She is responsible for cultivating, managing, and expanding strategic relationships and collaborations with a diverse set of partners both within and outside of the public health and immunization space.
Throughout her career, Sydney has partnered directly with communities to advance family-centered care in both the United States and internationally. Such work has included designing popular education programs in Tennessee, championing youth-led multimedia advocacy campaigns in Nigeria, and building an enabling health policy environment in Connecticut. Her intersectional perspective on immunizations is shaped by a belief that our well-being is defined by our diverse identities as much as it is by the conditions of our community and the context of our lives.
Within the immunization space, Sydney has worked to bridge the knowledge-to-action gap for vaccine confidence, access, and equity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she supported the federal government’s global response to childhood infectious disease outbreaks, routine immunization service disruptions, and equitable COVID-19 vaccine delivery. She also has been recognized as a National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Hilleman Award Finalist for her novel analysis of pregnant people’s online experiences navigating vaccination decision-making in the United States.
Sydney holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global Social Change and Development from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Yale University. Her family roots in the southeastern United States and personal patient and public health advocacy inform her justice-oriented approach to collective care.